London's inhabitants pay price for war on Iraq
Iraq-UK, Politics, 7/9/2005

London's inhabitants, in yesterday blasts, have paid the price for the war on Iraq, British Parliament member George Galloway said Friday vehemently condemning these blasts.

He added, in a statement, "The US-led alliance forces' deeds in Iraq, Afghanistan and in Guantanamo Bay detention have inflamed feelings of hatred in the Islamic world against the West." Galloway pointed out that the West is risking to repeatedly commit the same errors through using war as a main tool in its defensive foreign policy.

"We have warned, as the security bodies have done, that the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq will escalate dangers of the terrorist attacks and thus the Londoners paid the cost for neglecting such warnings," he said.

Galloway urged the British government to take the British people out of the danger circle by ending the occupation of Iraq and focusing on a real solution in the Middle East.

Meantime, the British newspapers commentaries focused on the blasts on London's Tavistock Square took place yesterday saying it opened disputes on the British foreign policy and the extent of its participation to put Britain in these dangers. "The occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan was the background of those explosions," papers said.

"It was crystal clear Britain would be a target ever since Tony Blair decided to join George Bush's war on terror and his invasion of Iraq," the Independent said.

The Express indicated that "Britain intervention in Iraq made us a target for extremists." "Any hope of preventing a repetition of yesterday's atrocities demands we to ask the right questions and search reasons that pushed some people to perpetrate such acts" the Guardian emphasized. For its part, The Financial Times called on the government to work for reaching an international unanimous on way of dealing with the Middle East problems and opting an equal policies to find a solution to the Palestinian cause and to go on in increasing assistances to the poor states to eradicate poverty.

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