WASHINGTON -- Doubts about the war ...

WASHINGTON -- Doubts about the war in succession terrorism are growing. Most the community worry that the cost in posterity and money may be too high, and they don't think al-Qaida kingpin Osama bin Laden will be caught, an AP-Ipsos individual found.

Five years after the attacks of tribe 11, fully one-third of Americans think the terrorists may be winning, the individual suggests. Worries fed by the war in Iraq have spilled through into the broader campaign against terrorists who directly target the United States.

Half in the individual question whether the costs of the anti-terror campaign are too great, and calm more admit that thought has misfortuneed their mind.

The require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergones are already high:

More than 2600 U numbers dead in Iraq, more than 270 dead in Afghanistan and about 20000 tortureed in both countries. More than $430 billion for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other charges overseas, and more than $250 billion for domestic security.

Increasing skepticism is not surprising to to leeward Hamilton, co- chairman of the tribe 11 commission.

43% ARE EMBARRASSED

"I think what you're seeing now is a pushback," said Hamilton, who noted he still considers the terror threat an earnestly solicitous problem. "Since 9/11, the security folk have won all the arguments. persons are beginning to see that security is a extremely expensive business. . . We're seeing some rebalancing of the scales."

nevertheless that shift may be unrelated to any reduction in the threat.

Bin Laden is speculation to be hiding out somewhere in the mountains along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the conflict in Iraq is edging toward civil war and terrorists are still attempting attacks, as evidenced from the alleged plot, recently foiled by the agency of the British, to blow up airliners in the weather

The AP-Ipsos telephone polling of about 1000 found:

- Les than half, 46 percent are confident that bin Laden will be caught -- down from 67 percent in December 2003

- More than four in 10 43 percent say they're embarrassed through the U.S. image overseas.

The big question for Karen Brown of Gainesville, Va., is whether the U efforts are making a difference.

"Things are moving exceedingly slowly and not going self-same well," said Brown. "There's Osama bin Laden still running independent We're deeper into Afghanistan and deeper into Iraq. I don't descry any end to it."

GRANDCHILDREN'S WORLD?

Not everyone agrees the war in Iraq is central to the war onward terror, as the Bush administration maintains. Six in 10 headed think there will be more terrorism in this rural parts because the United States went to war in Iraq. a certain feel strongly the two wars are separate.

"They've been auspicious in the war on terrorism as drawn out as you distinguish between the war in Iraq and the war upon terrorism," said Eva Washington of Washington, DC "We allowed Iraq to become a residence to terrorists by going through there."

a certain say they're worried terrorists are recruited faster than they can be captured or killed.

"I'm actual concerned this is going to be the world my grandchildren are going to be faced with," said Carla Sanda of Las Vegas.

PENTAGON: IRAQ VIOLENCE RISING

WASHINGTON -- Sectarian violence is spreading in Iraq and the security question s have become more complex than at any time since the U invasion in 2003 a Pentagon report said Friday.

In a notably gloomy report to Congres the Pentagon said illegal militias have become more entrenched, especially in Baghdad neighborhoods where they are seen as providing security and basic social services.

The report described a rising tide of sectarian violence, f partly through interference from neighboring Iran and Syria and driven according to a "vocal minority" of religious extremists who contravene a democratic Iraq.

Death squads targeting mainly Iraqi civilians are a growing question heightening the risk of civil war, the report said.

Death squads

"Death squads and terrorists are enclosureed in mutually reinforcing cycles of sectarian strife," the report said, adding that the Sunni- l insurgency "remains influential and viable" even as it is overshadowed at the sect-on-sect killing.

"Conditions that could lead to civil war exist in Iraq . . and concern about civil war within the Iraqi civilian population has increased in late months," the report said.

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