{"id":185,"date":"2003-01-21T14:08:50","date_gmt":"2003-01-21T14:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/01\/terrorist_attac\/"},"modified":"2003-01-21T14:08:50","modified_gmt":"2003-01-21T14:08:50","slug":"terrorist_attac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/terrorist_attac\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorist Attack in the UK &#8220;Inevitable&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Blair has been facing the Commons Liaison Committee this morning, and is quoted as saying that it was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/2678179.stm\">&#8220;inevitable&#8221;<\/a> that Al-Qaeda would attack Britain at some point.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t doubt that to be honest. But we can help ourselves by not blithely following Bush into a pointless war that&#8217;s certain to create more problems than it solves, notwithstanding the inevitable &#8220;collateral damage&#8221; that&#8217;ll be done (i.e. innocent women and children being slaughtered).<br \/>\nToo often Iraq and Al-Qaeda are quoted in the same arena. They&#8217;re seperate issues.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the poor asylum seekers that I feel really sorry for at the moment. The recent raids in Manchester (that saw the murder of a policeman) and Wood Green, talked a lot about the fact that they were Algerian asylum seekers. How embattled must Algerian nationals living in Britain feel at the moment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Blair has been facing the Commons Liaison Committee this morning, and is quoted as saying that it was &#8220;inevitable&#8221; that Al-Qaeda would attack Britain at some point. I don&#8217;t doubt that to be honest. But we can help ourselves by not blithely following Bush into a pointless war that&#8217;s certain to create more problems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}