Anti-Terrorism Tactics Evaluated In U.S.

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<snip> Polling Data

Would you be willing—or not willing—to have the U.S. government do each of the following, if the government thought it were necessary to combat terrorism?

Willing Not willing No opinion

Assassinate known terrorists 65% 33% 2%

Assassinate leaders of countries that harbour terrorists 37% 59% 4%

Torture known terrorists if they know details about future terrorist attacks in the U.S. 39% 59% 2%

Use nuclear weapons to attack terrorist facilities 27% 72% 1%

Source: Gallup / CNN / USA Today
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 480 American adults, conducted from Jan. 7 to Jan. 9, 2005. Margin of error is 4 per cent.

http://www.cpod.ca/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=5593

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1. Would you permit a body cavity search to prove you are not a terrorist?

35% 58% 7% (depends on who's doing the searching)