Impact of British National Policy on Abu Dhabi Embassy after 7/7 Terror Attack

Running Head: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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1INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Foreign policy and national policy are considered to be highly related and inter-
connected. It can be stated that very often drastic change in the national policy leaves a great
impact on the foreign policy framework. In this context, this essay is going to reflect an impact
on the Abu Dhabi Embassy of Britain and the impact of British national policy after the terror
attack on July 2005 that developed a significant impact on the occupation of British Embassy in
Abu Dhabi.
On July, 2005 four suicide bombers attacked the heart of Britain, city of London with bag
packs full of explosives. As a result of that approximately 52 people were killed and a several
hundreds were injured. This incident was identified as one of the worst single terrorist attack in
the history of Britain. The international terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda held responsible for these
attack as a retaliation against the UK-US joint task force intervention in Afghanistan in 2000
(Rodgers, Qurashi and Connor 2015). Therefore, in 2001 the World Trade Centre was hit and
2005 the London Central Tube station was the primary target of the terrorists. However, the
aftermath of that blast was highly significant and it transformed the shape of UK foreign policy
drastically (Gov.uk 2018). The UK government circulated a red alert on the terrorist activities all
over the country and a nation-wide protest movement was set to initiate against the Muslims. As
the four perpetrators were Muslims therefore it became obvious for the government to take great
concern of its citizenship planning. Unprecedented scrutiny and suspicion made the life of the
UK British community as hell. The Muslim community also suffered a lot because of those
terrorist activities and government imposed draconian rule on the Muslim community (Hasan
2015).
These national policy of UK made it more critical to operate in Middle East. As a matter
of fact, the Middle East region lodged several complaints against the nefarious attitude of the