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Blair and Blair: On the trail of terror Light refractions by Lucien Rajakarunanayake Tony Blair and his Police Chief Sir Ian Blair are prowling on the Trail of Terror. They can't be blamed for their determination to hunt down those who endanger the lives and limbs of British citizens, causing damage to its economy too. But Blair and Blair, with their obsession with terror and the safety of British citizens, have found it convenient to only target foreigners already in their midst or who may enter the country, who could pose a threat, for deporting or exclusion. Pakistan's President Pervez Musharaff was spot on when he said the UK bombers "were homegrown" or persons who had been radicalised in the UK itself, and certainly not in Pakistan. Looks like Blair and Blair will have to get down and make a careful inspection of the British soil, with magnifying glasses and microscopes to discover what it was in the British soil that made these suicide killers sprout out so well from it. It seems the problem facing the two Blairs in their hunt for terror is that they have ignored those who have happily settled down in the UK, and helped spread the tentacles of terror to other parts of the world for so long. They suddenly find an evil ideology in Islamic terror, while they saw nothing wrong in encouraging the ideology of Tamil separatist terror to flourish on British soil for so long. If Blair and Blair are keen on learning how the mind of the terrorist, Islamic or otherwise works, or how suicide killers are made, all they need do is have a long chat with Anton Stanislaus Balasingham, the acknowledged ideologue of Tamil Tiger Terror, who lives comfortably in Britain. Even though Tony Blair says he wants to clamp down on the advocates of terror, and that "the Rules of the Game are changing", this advocate of terror will have nothing to fear, as Blair and Blair are only concerned with foreigners who encourage terror against British society. Balasingham is a British citizen, protected by Blair and Blair. The terrorist attack in London needs condemning and one has to share the grief of those who suffered in what seemed a senseless act of brutality. Yet, Mr. Blair and so many others shed no tears nor missed a breath when many more civilian lives were lost and the economy almost devastated in Sri Lanka by the blood-thirsty Sun God in the Vanni, and his ideologue of terror happily ensconced in the UK. It was terror carried out by the suicide bombers trained by Balasingham's outfit of terror that still operates from the jungles in Sri Lanka's North. It never struck either of the Blairs that this ideologue of Tiger Terror, sheltered in Britain, was openly giving encomiums to the suicide killers of the LTTE, even after the much delayed ban of the LTTE in the UK as an international terrorist organisation. It was nothing less than encouraging terror and a declaration of one's commitment to it, when Balasingham said the Tiger suicide killers were the elite of the Tiger armed forces, and would not be disbanded. And that was after the UK officially banned the LTTE. How's that for a fight against terror, Tony Blair? Or will you ask Bush about it? One regrets the plight that Blair and Blair have placed the British people in today. Yet one needs to know that the failure to take the proper steps against terrorism when it strikes someone or some place else, other than ones homeland, is an invitation for it to strike at home too, even by different ideologues of terror. The "War of Terror" declared by George W Bush and Tony Blair, with the UK "riding as a pillion passenger with the United States in the War on Terror" as one British Think Tank described, is now only an operation to prevent the spread of terrorism. Britain and Tony Blair's ignoring the plight of Sri Lanka in the face of terror, apart from being unpardonable, certainly helped nurture the home grown British terrorists of 7/7. Not even after the home grown terrorists of Sri Lanka, heavily funded by supporters in the UK, assassinated a President of Sri Lanka, a former Prime Minister of India, a presidential candidate in Sri Lanka, and had near success in a murderous attack on the present President of Sri Lanka. Was Tony Blair and his advisors on security at home and abroad bothered about the consequences of all this in the overall spread of terror in the world? The tentacles of Tamil Tiger Terror are already spread in South Asia. Terror has come home to roost in Britain, because leaders such as Tony
Blair preferred to ignore the difference between "national liberation" and
ruthless terrorism. It's time for Blair and Blair to have Balasingham as
their mentor on the making of a suicide killer. |
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