Cairo – Former assistant to Egyptian interior minister said on Friday that Egypt will withstand terrorism, which should be countered through both security and intellectual approaches. Major General Ahmed Gad Mansour, former president of Police Academy, reiterated that the Egyptian army and security authorities can thwart and abort terrorist operations. He told Al-Bawaba News that terrorism should be intellectually countered through the correction of wrong notions and thoughts. Thus, all state institutions should take all required actions to spread and promote the right notions with mechanisms to solve problems that lead to terrorism. Mansour explained that the decision taken by Egypt and some Arab countries to cut ties with Qatar will reduce terrorist operations in Egypt and the whole region, as Doha shelters and funds terrorists. He added that this decision will dry up the sources of terrorism.