Special report: Major UK air terror plot thwarted

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    LONDON, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- More than half of British people think the "war on terror" is being lost, the BBC reported on Tuesday.

    According to a latest survey, carried out for the BBC five years after 9/11 attacks, 53 percent of respondents believed the British government was losing the "war on terror," and 56 percent thought it was being lost by other western governments.

    Four out of 10 people questioned said they felt less safe now than when the so-called war on terror began after the 9/11 attacks, while 11 percent felt safer.

    In the survey, some 52 percent thought British troops should be withdrawn from Afghanistan now, and half believed they should leave Iraq. And about 52 percent believed western governments should not negotiate with al-Qaida, and almost a third thought they should.

    Some 55 percent people said British government is too closely aligned with U.S. foreign policy, and 19 percent thought it was about right.

    According to the report, GfK NOP surveyed almost 1,000 people nationally on Sept. 8-10 for the BBC's Ten O'Clock News. Enditem