[Mb-civic] Homegrown Hatred - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Homegrown Hatred

By Colbert I. King
Saturday, July 16, 2005; Page A17

Two days after the terrorist attacks in London, British Prime Minister 
Tony Blair pointed to what he called terrorism's root causes: poverty, 
lack of democracy and the Middle East conflict. Blair said, "Where there 
is extremism, fanaticism or acute and appalling forms of poverty in one 
continent, the consequences no longer stay fixed in that continent, they 
spread to the rest of the world."

All of which may be true. President Bush and Secretary of State 
Condoleezza Rice have said pretty much the same thing. What any of that 
means as far as the London explosions are concerned is, however, another 
question.

<>Blair now knows, but apparently didn't suspect when he spoke last 
week, that three of the four alleged bombers were born and raised in an 
economically thriving democracy called Great Britain. The three men of 
Pakistani descent did not, by all accounts, lead lives steeped in 
economic desperation. The fourth bomber also did not hail from the 
turbulent Middle East. He was, according to U.S. law enforcement 
officials, a Jamaica-born British citizen.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/15/AR2005071501555.html 

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