British Support for War on Iraq Rises After Bali Blast

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British Support for War on Iraq Rises After Bali Blast

There has been a sharp rise in support among British voters for military action against Iraq in the immediate aftermath of the Bali bomb attack, an opinion poll published on Wednesday showed.

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There has been a sharp rise in support among British voters for military action against Iraq in the immediate aftermath of the Bali bomb attack, an opinion poll published on Wednesday showed.

A survey by The Guardian newspaper found that support for a military attack on Iraq had risen by 10 percentage points in the last week from 32 percent to 42 percent.

The survey, which was carried out on Monday, showed that opposition to an attack dropped from 41 percent to 37 percent.

Forty-one percent of respondents said it was necessary to fight the war on terrorism on two fronts, against Iraq and al-Qaeda.

According to the poll, 35 percent of respondents thought al-Qaeda rather than Iraq should be the focus of international attention.

The survey interviewed a random sample of 1,008 adults by telephone on Monday. No margin of error was given.

Up to 30 Britons were expected among the victims of the Bali explosion, which happened last Saturday night in a popular Indonesian resort island and left 188 people dead.

Both George W. Bush and Tony Blair had condemned the explosion and called on the world to confront this global menace and terrorism while they were mulling support to fight a war against Iraq, accusing the Gulf country of developing weapons of mass destruction.

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