Terrorist alarm in the UK

Joakim Jakobsson praises new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's reaction to the terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow: "To counter violence with violence and restrict rights would be to adopt the terrorists' logic. The bombs were intended to prompt Great Britain and international politics to take a harder line with terrorists. Nothing could serve the purpose of fundamentalists and terrorists better than a Europe that adopts Bush's policies. Brown, on the other hand, appears to be reacting calmly to the attacks. There's no sign of an overreaction along American lines. Back in 2005 the British response to the London bombings was also above all one of openness and respect for human rights."

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