The death of Osama Bin Laden has undoubtedly made the world a safer place.

But the call for extra vigilance from Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg while in Bradford yesterday is without doubt justified.

Because there can be little question that simply removing the head of this particular hydra will not slay the whole beast.

Instead, while damaging to the al Qaida network, it is likely to provoke, in the short term at least, further attempts at atrocities.

What is more important, as Mr Clegg said in the city yesterday, is for a measured response to the news. And to continue to remember that the War On Terror is not a conflict with the Muslim world.

It is one with extremists who peddle the doctrine of hate and terror and who commit horrific atrocities in the name of that doctrine.

While in Bradford at a question and answer session hosted by the Telegraph & Argus, Mr Clegg was asked by a member of the audience what the Coalition Government was doing about Islamaphobia.

Continuing to stress that the ongoing War on Terror is not a direct conflict with Islam is one way to try and reduce that particular form of prejudice.

All right-thinking people will today be relieved that a man who was responsible for the deaths of so many innocent people in horrific atrocities can no longer direct these atrocities.

Just as they should recognise that it is only a tiny minority of Islamic extremists who continue to support the network of terror Bin Laden was one of the leading members of.