(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – Most people in Britain think it is likely that their country will be the target of a terrorist attack in the next 12 months, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 59 per cent of respondents share this view, whereas 28 per cent do not think this will be the case.
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – Most people in Britain think it is likely that their country will be the target of a terrorist attack in the next 12 months, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 59 per cent of respondents share this view, whereas 28 per cent do not think this will be the case.
In July 2005, four blasts in London killed at least 53 people and injured 700 more. Investigators say three British nationals of Pakistani descent and a Jamaican-born man were responsible for the explosions at three underground stations and a double-decker bus. Authorities believe the event was a coordinated suicide bombing, the first to ever occur in Western Europe.
In late June and early July 2007, two attempted car bombings were reported in London, and a car—filled with gas cylinders and fuel—crashed into the doors of Scotland’s Glasgow Airport in another apparent attack.
On Jul. 22, Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, head of the MI5 secret intelligence agency between 2002 and 2007, said that the British military engagement in the Iraq war "substantially" increased the overall terrorist threat in the country and that it also "radicalized" some British citizens, adding, "What Iraq did was to produce a fresh impetus of people prepared to engage in terrorism."
Polling Data
How likely is it that a terrorist attack will happen in the UK in the next year?
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Very likely / Moderately likely
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59%
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Not too likely / Not likely at all
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28%
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Not sure
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13%
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Source: Angus Reid Public Opinion
Methodology: Online interviews with 1,980 British adults, conducted on Jul. 15 and Jul. 16, 2010. Margin of error is 2.2 per cent.
