Response to British becoming dar-ul harb;

In spite of British stiff upper lip and resilience , the slip was already showing after the botched up terrorist attacks of 21 July .As for the famous Blitz fortitude , after the air attack sirens went on , one could get down into shelters , including the underground , but now the underground itself was full of terror . The daily routine of commuting to work and back has become an ordeal of suspicion and anxiety for millions of Londoners.

Here are some of the reactions, “It does make you really scared but you’ve got to carry on. You can see passengers are more nervous as they get on the bus, they glance at people with bags and I am always looking at people’s bags.” “I’m not so much nervous, but more aware on the tube. I look for baggage hanging around. People seem more jumpy.” “You can’t help feeling a bit edgy,” said another. “I think that being vigilant is the best we can do. I am now very wary of people with rucksacks.” “It does make you really scared but you’ve got to carry on. “I’m resigned to the fact that this is going to happen again,”

Then came the shooting down as it turns out to be, in cold blood of some one who looked like an Asian (aka Pakistani origin, he could be from India or Bangladesh too).He turned out to be a Brazilian electrician.

A witness, Mark Whitby, who saw the shooting at close range, said, “An Asian guy ran on to the train. As he ran, he was hotly pursued by what I knew to be three plainclothes police officers. He sort of tripped but they were hotly pursuing him and could not have been more than two or three feet behind him at this time. He half-tripped, was half-pushed to the floor.”

“One of the police officers was holding a black automatic pistol in his left hand. They held it down to him and unloaded five shots into him. I saw it. He’s dead, five shots, he’s dead.” Whitby added that the man did not seem to be carrying a weapon or wearing a rucksack.

Professor Paul Rogers of Bradford University said the police action appeared like the “very strong” methods used by Israeli security forces and US troops in Iraq. “This sort of thing happens only in Hollywood movies,” exclaimed a TV journalist. Instead of a smooth operation from the famous Ian Fleming’s creation 007, it looked like a clumsy parody of Laurel and Hardy going on a manhunt.

The Muslim Council of Britain said Muslims expressed concerned at the apparent “shoot-to-kill” policy now in operation. Inayat Bunglawala, a spokesman, said Muslims were “jumpy and nervous”.

New York's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, had to apologies to a group of British tourists after armed police swarmed on to an open-top sightseeing bus, handcuffed them and forced them to kneel on Broadway. They were five Sikh tourists from Birmingham and they seemed suspicious. The police cordoned off the block for 90 minutes, ordered all 60 passengers off the bus, and searched their belongings and then their bodies. The five men were then identified by the employee and cuffed.

After the terrorist attacks of September 11 more than 400 Sikhs were attacked across USA, claims Amardeep Singh, legal director of the Sikh coalition in New York. Reports "across the board" showed that Sikhs [with beards but not white] were being confused with Arabs and other Muslims.

In the market driven world, London bombings have provided another opportunity to sell to Britons, fearful of more bombings, personal survival kits when caught up in emergencies. The pack, which can fit into a handbag, contains a particle mask to filter out dust, a torch to provide light, a whistle, water and antiseptic wipes. It is selling like fish and chips.

Similarity with trigger-happy occupation troops in Iraq ;

A study published in prestigious UK journal Lancet last year had estimated that over 100,000 Iraqis were killed since the invasion .In a recent report by the Iraq Body Count and the Oxford Research Group, the two independent researchers concluded that at least 24,865 Iraqi civilians were killed up to March 19, 2005. It said it should be regarded as the "baseline of the minimum number of deaths.” Most of these deaths are thought to have occurred during the conflict and its aftermath.

Of this 9,270 or 37% died at the hands of the Americans or other coalition forces (86 were killed by British troops, 23 by Italians, and 13 by Ukrainians). Anti-occupation forces have been responsible for 2,353 deaths i.e. less than 25% of that by the occupation forces. But corporate controlled media in USA and UK feed in the picture that it is the insurgents who are creating the mayhem .while it is the occupation troops who are trigger-happy.

Indians in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad Jammu and Shrinagar and other cities have lived with this kind of terror for decades because the terrorists were all trained in camps financed and provided arms and training by Anglo-Saxons and countries like Saudi Arabia. Think of the hell the citizens of Iraq i.e. in Baghdad, Falluja, and Najaf and elsewhere are going through since the illegal invasion in March 2003.

Anglo-Saxon- Pak marriage gone sour;

Pakistan leadership can not hit back at USA, with its policies since decades now unraveling and creating serious problems at home in Pakistan, but Islamabad‘s retorts are also directed at Washington.

General Musharraf had Hobson’s choice when after 11 September attacks , USA threatened and coerced him into jettisoning Pakistan’s long crafted and cherished policy of defense in depth in Afghanistan to counter India , in the wake of the Soviet take over of Afghanistan in late 1970s . It had made Pakistani ruler Gen Zia-ul Haq a strategic Western ally from a pariah till then, for hanging Pakistani Premier Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and halting Pakistan’s wobbly movement towards democracy. In fact, Pakistan has remained allied to the West since it was created in 1947 by bloodily tearing it apart from Hindustan as the subcontinent was known since centuries.

The author who spent ten years in two tenures in Turkish capital Ankara , where Gen. Musharraf spent early 1950s , his impressionable childhood years , has followed his statements and TV interviews , his turns and twists since he , a Mohajir , whose family migrated to Pakistan in 1947 after the partition ,was preferred for the top army job over ambitious Punjabi generals in 1998 and his taking over in October 1999 ,when Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif unwittingly tried to replace him with a loyalist.

In spite of his having imbibed the secular ideology of Kemal Ataturk , the founder of the modern Republic of Turkey, and his various attempts to marginalize the fundamentalists and fanatic elements in Pakistan’s powerful Inter services intelligence (ISI) , the armed forces , with leadership opposed to him specially in Baluchistan and Frontier Province , he has a mission impossible on his hands.

Ataturk, his idol, after expelling invaders and occupation forces from what is now Turkey concentrated at home, modernizing and westernizing Turkey into a strong secular republic. He eschewed any idea of claiming former Ottoman territories and even let go, reluctantly, half of Kurdistan including oil rich Kirkuk, now in Iraq, which the British had occupied after the armistice. But Musharraf keeps on eying Afghanistan and Kashmir and a bigger role for himself.