New Delhi: As the five-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks approaches, nearly three-fourths of those responding to a CNN poll said they believe Osama bin Laden is planning another significant attack against the US.
Seventy-four per cent of the 1,033 adult Americans polled said they believe an attack is being planned.
The poll was conducted by Opinion Research Corporation on behalf of CNN.
In results released on Wednesday, 44 per cent said they believe he will not succeed. The other 30 per cent said the attack would be successful.
Fifty-eight per cent said it was either "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that the US will be able to capture or kill bin Laden.
That percentage, however, has dropped from past years; in 2004, 66 per cent of poll respondents said it was likely and in 2001 the figure was 76 per cent.
Respondents were nearly evenly split on whether the US-led war in Iraq has hampered the nation's ability to capture or kill bin Laden.
Forty-seven per cent said it was either "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that bin Laden would have been captured or killed had the US not become involved in the Iraq war.
Fifty-one per cent said bin Laden would not have been captured by now regardless of the Iraq war.
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