"In a 2003–4 survey of 2,000 Russians commissioned by Stephen White at the University of Glasgow, 95 per cent of the respondents felt that terrorism was a serious threat to Russian security. 1 However, despite the fact that Chechen groups have claimed recent terrorist acts, Russians were far more worried about the Americans. In the survey, 23 per cent cited the US as the major threat to Russia; only three per cent said the same for Chechnya."
More Worried about the US than Chechen terrorism? Still only 23% of the respondents say so. I see the poll was done before Beslan. I'm surprised it's not higher because the international press loves to spew anti-US rhetoric, alas BBC.
"What is clear is that terrorism is affecting the way in which these respondents analyse the political situation in Russia. There was a tendency to blame democracy for terrorism, both in the global and the Russian contexts."
"For example, many of the focus-group participants perceived the expansionist ambitions of the capitalist US as responsible for much of world terrorism. Many Russian respondents commented that too much democracy was to blame for the lack of law and order."
Yes, lets have more despots and tyrants as rulers. Here's a fact Pat: 'liberal' democracies have never went to war with each other.
1. Prevention – addressing underlying causes of terrorism here and overseas. That means, among other things, ensuring that Muslim citizens enjoy the full protection of the law and are able to participate to the full in British society.
Seems to me the four 7/7 terrorists were participating fully in both British and American society.
"When will they ever learn?"