Publication

In this paper, the author argues that a public awareness campaign about what al-Qaeda and its affiliated groups keep trying to do in Western Europe should neither raise alarm nor minimize the problem. While avoiding alerts like the one issued by the US State Department on 3 October 2010, the reasonable thing to do is to inform people about a threat that is real but which can be contained and lessened, as has been done over the past five years through adequate government policies and optimal cooperation between governments.