Fears linger two years after 9/11

[Nottingham]

Fears linger two years after 9/11
Texas Poll shows doubts despite beefed-up anti-terrorism efforts
By ALLAN TURNER
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle
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• Poll results
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2087163


Smoke still poured from New York City's shattered World Trade Center when Mark Sisselman's clients began asking him how they could protect their own buildings from terrorist attack. The Denver commercial and telecommunications real estate broker didn't know the answers, but the questions set him thinking.

"Maybe the government wasn't doing a very good job in getting information out to the general public," he mused. A believer in the value of seminars, Sisselman rounded up a cadre of experts -- one-time U.S. Sen. Gary Hart, a former CIA man, an Israeli diplomat, a doctor knowledgeable about nuclear and biological terrorism -- for a series of emergency preparedness sessions around the country, including Houston later this month.
It may just be the perfect business for the times.

Two years after the Sept. 11, 2001, Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, the threat of terrorism lingers. Through airport congestion and delay, bag searches at sporting events and the endless assurances that government is ably safeguarding the nation, it has insinuated itself into the fabric of American life.

Seventy-six percent of participants in a recent Scripps Howard Texas Poll said they think it is at least "somewhat likely" that terrorist attacks will occur in the United States within the next year. Fifty-eight percent expressed concern that such an attack will occur in the next few weeks. Only 50 percent said enough is being done to ensure safety of airline passengers.

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Bush has done his job well! Americans are scared to death! :bounce:
oh and I loved this Report Card
Researchers for the nonprofit Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank, were less sanguine. Their recently issued homeland security "report card" gave the government a "D," noting that some of the anti-terrorism measures have been inadequately funded.

And Houston goes down as Most Vulnerable! GREAT!! Just Freakin GREAT!
:bounce:

[Nottingham]

1. I hope somebody reads this cause the Poll is really interesting

:bounce:

[Mari333]

2. and think of the REAL Fear if the truth were ever told

by the blacked out news media in the USA..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1036571,00.html