A 2011 Associated Press-NORC report found that a majority of Republicans, 66percentt, endorsed the use of "harsh" interrogation techniques when trying to identify terrorist threats, compared with 29percentt of Democrats.
In the first of these polls, on 10 June, younger respondents proved much more likely than older to put personal privacy above an anti-terrorism probe: 45% of 18-to-29-year-olds said personal privacy was more important, even if protecting it limited the ability to investigate terrorist threats – compared with 35% in the 30-to-49 30-to-49 30-to-49% of the over-50s.
It is the only European country to have done so.So why has there been such relative lack of publicity over Britain's terrorist detainees compared with those in Guantánamo Bay? Partly because most of the British ones have requested that their names not be made public for fear of retaliation against their families.
When the conventional terrorist groups and individuals of the early 1970's are compared with terrorists of the early 1990's, a trend can be seen: the emergence of religious fundamentalist and new religious groups espousing the rhetoric of mass-destruction terrorism.
The number of casualties from international terrorism dropped last year: 221 people died in terrorist acts in 1997, compared with 314 in 1996.
To many doctors in public health, the threat from terrorist anthrax is nothing compared with the self-inflicted catastrophe of antibiotic abuse.
The measures go beyond the background check the government has conducted for years, called Secure Flight, in which a passenger's name, gender and date of birth are compared with terrorist watch lists.
Man Haron Monis behaved "atypically" inside the Lindt cafe compared with other terrorists because of his "terrible mix" of personality disorders and extreme, violent beliefs, an inquest has heard.
And former senator Fred D. Thompson (Tenn ., who just jumped into the Republican race for president, at first dismissed the importance of catching bin Laden compared with other terrorists who might be in the United States, only to retreat and quickly assert that he, too, wanted to "capture and kill" the al-Qaeda leader.
Signal's methodology involved comparing the number of news reports which mention an attacker alongside the words "terrorism", "terrorist", "terror" or "suicide bomber", compared with the number of reports that name an attack but fail to mention any of those terms.
