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There is however the possibility that we are winning the war on terrorism and our enemy can no longer afford to sacrifice what few soilders it can muster.

Yep. And a jihadi terrorist has a better chance of surviving in the U.K. than he does in Iraq. With the drop in violence there, you have to wonder if many of Zarqawi's barbarians have left Iraq. Where would they go from there to continue their jihad? A western country with poor control on immigration from the Middle East and a sizeable group of Muslim fundamentalists already in place would be my guess.

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.. And a jihadi terrorist has a better chance of surviving in the U.K. than he does in Iraq. ...

You can see this way...

The more worrying scenario is that there are more terrorists got trained in urban warfare and they are able to "export" them all over the world.

Call me pessimist, but in my view there is no harm in overestimating the enemy as opposed to underestimating them and issuing optimist statements about winning the war against terror...

Tell this now to that hundreds of families in London... or might az well those thousands in Irak, whos members are just too regularly blown up in dozens when they try to get the only available job, the policemans...

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And obviously Britain, Spain, France and Germany on paper appear to be a much easier fight for the Jihadists. I think however they will be surprised by the response of the peoples from the British Isles. They are a much tougher breed then the typical cosmopolitan Londoner. For example: Scotland and Ireland never fell to the Romans.