Alerts, Alarms and Threats
How Much Should the People of Europe be Told?
Author(s): Fernando Reinares
Publisher(s): Elcano Royal Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Madrid, Spain
Date of publication: 17 Nov 2010
Volume number: 2010
Issue number: 153
Pages: 5
Series: Elcano Royal Institute Analyses
Description: 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.
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