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Titolo: Re: London mayor says West fueled Islamic radicalism (Reuters)

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 By Andrew Gray
LONDON (Reuters) - Western foreign policy has fueled the Islamist 
radicalism behind the bomb attacks which killed more than 50 people in 
London, the British capital's mayor Ken Livingstone said on Wednesday.
Livingstone, who earned the nickname "Red Ken" for his left-wing views, 
won widespread praise for a defiant response which helped unite London 
after the bombings. But he has revived his reputation for courting 
controversy in recent days.
Asked on Wednesday what he thought had motivated the four suspected 
suicide bombers, Livingstone cited Western policy in the Middle East 
and early American backing for Osama bin Laden.
"A lot of young people see the double standards, they see what happens 
in (U.S. detention camp) Guantanamo Bay, and they just think that there 
isn't a just foreign policy," he said.
Police say they believe there is a clear link between bin Laden's al 
Qaeda network and the four British Muslims who blew up three 
underground trains and a double-decker bus on July 7.
"You've just had 80 years of Western intervention into predominantly 
Arab lands because of a Western need for oil. We've propped up unsavory 
governments, we've overthrown ones that we didn't consider 
sympathetic," Livingstone said.
"I think the particular problem we have at the moment is that in the 
1980s ... the Americans recruited and trained Osama bin Laden, taught 
him how to kill, to make bombs, and set him off to kill the Russians to 
drive them out of Afghanistan.
"They didn't give any thought to the fact that once he'd done that, he 
might turn on his creators," he told BBC radio.
ANGER OVER IRAQ
Prime Minister Tony Blair's government has insisted the bombings have 
no link to its foreign policy, particularly its decision to invade Iraq 
alongside the United States.
But an opinion poll this week showed two-thirds of Britons see a 
connection between the Iraq war and the bombings. A top think tank and 
a leaked intelligence memo have also suggested the war has made Britain 
more of a target for terrorists.    
 That did not stop the right-wing Daily Telegraph castigating 
Livingstone, a maverick member of Blair's Labour party who was 
celebrating London's selection as host of the 2012 Olympics just hours 
before the bombers struck.
Wednesday's edition of the paper featured a picture of the mayor 
between photographs of two radical Muslim clerics under the headline: 
"The men who blame Britain."
Livingstone has made clear he condemns all killing, including suicide 
bombing. But is also a long-standing critic of Israeli policies toward 
the Palestinians.
"If you have been under foreign occupation, and denied the right to 
vote, denied the right to run your own affairs, often denied the right 
to work, for three generations, I suspect if it had happened here in 
England, we would have produced a lot of suicide bombers ourselves," he 
said on Wednesday.
Israel's ambassador to London Zvi Heifetz accused the mayor of 
expressing sympathy for Palestinian militants.
"It is outrageous that the same mayor who rightfully condemned the 
suicide bombing in London as perverted faith', defends those who, under 
the same extremist banner, kill Israelis," he said in a statement.

London, the British capital's mayor Ken Livingstone said on Wednesday.
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