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New London terror warning

 
Sunday Times
September 14, 2008
Christina Lamb and Michael Smith
 
American raids on Taliban and Al-Qaeda targets in Pakistan could provoke terror attacks in London,Pakistan's high commissioner to the UK warned yesterday.
 
Wajid Shamsul Hasan said the US bombings had killed hundreds of civilians but had failed to eliminate any Al-Qaeda leader.
 
"This will infuriate Muslims in this country and make the streets of London less safe," he said. "There are 1m Pakistanis in the diaspora here and resentment is mounting. I'm being flooded by text messages from community leaders saying we must organise our anger.
 
"The Americans' trigger-happy actions will radicalise young Muslims. They're playing into the hands of the very militants we're supposed to be fighting."
 
His remarks followed outrage in Pakistan over five attacks in the past 10 days, including a ground assault in the village of Angoor Adda in which 20 people were killed. US officials say all were Al-Qaeda supporters but Pakistan insists they were civilians, including women and children.
 
Pakistan's newly elected president, Asif Ali Zardari, arrives in Britain today on what was to have been a private visit to see his daughter off to university in Edinburgh. Instead he will hold crisis talks with Gordon Brown and David Miliband, the foreign secretary. He will appeal to them to exert their influence to halt the unauthorised bombings.
 
"We hope they will help convince the Americans to stop it, to give space to our fledgling democracy and revive our economy," Hasan said. "Otherwise the army will take over. Is that what they want?"
 
Copyright 2008 Times Newspapers Ltd.
 
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