| Strapped to the Mast: The Siren Song of Dreadful Necessity, the United Kingdom Human Rights Act and the Terrorist Threat (2008) | |||||||||||||||
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| Chapter 15 of "Fresh Perspectives on the ‘War on Terror’". The United Kingdom (UK) has a long and complex history of engagement with terrorism and other forms of violence directed at achieving political aims. Acts that might be characterised as ‘terrorism’ in contemporary political and media analysis have taken place in the UK as far back as the Fenian bombings of the 1860s. Similar acts occurred during the anarchist scares of the 1890s and 1900s and the repeated Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombing campaigns in Northern Ireland and mainland Britain from the 1950s to the 1990s. Now, the 11 September 2001 (9/11) terrorist attacks on New York and Washington DC and the London tube and bus bombs in July 2005 have resulted in the threat presented by fundamentalist Islamist groups coming to the forefront of public and political concern. | |||||||||||||||
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