THERE IS A REACTION TO EVERY ACTION - SIR ISSAC NEWTON

It was not a false cry of ‘wolf, wolf ‘ on 7 July .The wolf had reached London unlike 13 February, 2003 when an alert exercise was organized in London and US cities to influence the UN Security Council vote on the report of Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix for war on Iraq. Next day, an Arab editorial remarked, “Has UK Prime Minister Tony Blair taken leave of his senses? The sight of tanks and armored patrol vehicles patrolling London’s Heathrow airport suggests so -- does Blair envisage — an Al-Qaida panzer division –- -Washington appears equally paranoid. Batteries of anti-aircraft missiles have been set up around the city with fighter planes patrolling overhead,—“Orange alerts, the second highest, were enforced in USA and UK, with helicopters and planes covering the two countries airspace.” How US President George Bush and Tony Blair used panic and fear to manipulate events and their people, with Bush using it for being re-elected.

After reaching London the bad wolf has threatened Italy, Denmark and other members of the US coalition of the willing, many not that willing now. September 11 attacks which stunned USA were like dispatching 21 century Assassins to the court of present day Warlords to create panic , as their predecessors had done in Karakorum, the Mongolian capital of 11 century war lords, but 7 July London bombings could make the heart of Great Britain part of darul- harb (house of war) between Crusaders and Jihadis. Most Muslims refer to western forces in the Middle East as Crusaders.

During the British colonial rule in India, many intrepid Indian freedom fighters, following a path different from Mahatma Gandhi’s of non-violence, reached the English shores and attacked some of the British colonial wrong doers in London.

After the death of Prophet Mohammed, the Arab armies achieved astounding success within a century, extending the Islamic Empire from the Himalayas to the Gibraltar. To justify aggressive warfare, which is forbidden in Koran, Muslim jurists developed the theology of Jihad. . However, by the beginning of the 8^th century, the Jihad momentum had burnt out and the Muslims accepted other religions and other nations, and established diplomatic and trade relations with them. The Jihad was now used for striving for spiritual uplifting. Nevertheless, the Christians found it less easy to forget the Jihad.

On November 25 ,1095, at the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II called for the first Crusade against Islam, because ‘Seljuk Turks, a barbarian race from Central Asia , recently converted to Islam had swept into Byzantine Asia minor’ ( now Turkey) after their victory in 1071 at Manzikert. For the Christian warriors it had become a religious duty to 'exterminate this vile race from our lands and then liberate the holy city of Jerusalem from the infidels. This Crusade versus Jihad has continued since then .During the first Crusade; Jews were massacred in Europe and in Palestine along with Muslims. In the 21st-century Crusade, US, neo-cons and Jewish fundamentalists and Israelis have joined hands.

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Britain was not on al-Qaida’s hit list in the late 1990s, but Osama bin Laden warned it in October 2001 if UK joined in the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan. He said in a November 2002 tape, "What do your governments want from their alliance with America in attacking us in Afghanistan? I mention in particular Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Germany and Australia." In February of 2003, as Bush and Blair went to war on Iraq, bin Laden warned that the U.K. and the U.S. would be made to pay. In October of 2003, bin Laden named Britain as a target for reprisals. A month later, an al-Qaida-linked group targeted a British bank and Consulate in Istanbul killing its vice-consul.

A recent CIA report and EU analysts had concluded that an attack on Britain was inevitable, since 70 British Muslims, most of them originally from Pakistan, had joined the Iraqi resistance. Once their skills were honed in the field, they would inevitably return home. Dozens of terrorist sleeper cells are scattered around Europe. Great Britain has long been considered for a revenge terrorist strike, along with the US, Israel, Italy and Denmark. The second line of targeting includes assorted "infidel" countries like Spain, France, Belgium and Germany. Intelligence agencies believe that up to 3,000 British-born or British-based operatives had passed through Afghan training camps to fight against Communist infidels. US led west had then encouraged that traffic. It even brought the Afghan Jihadis to the Balkans to fight against the Serbs in early 1990s thus giving them international exposure and experience.