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steven g · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Location: seoul

London Mayor Ken Livingstone has blamed Western foreign policy in the Middle East for fomenting terrorism.

He accused the West of interfering in the region as long ago as World War I in order to maintain control of oil supplies.

Mr Livingstone said this had produced Islamic terrorism and the likes of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.

He said a lot of young people in Britain were outraged by the double standards in Western foreign policy.

This was reflected in America's support for Israel and detentions without trial in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba, he said.

He exlained: "We have propped up unsavoury governments, we have overthrown ones that we didn't consider sympathetic.

"And I think the particular problem we have at the moment is that in the 1980s the Americans recruited and trained Osama bin Laden.

"They taught him how to kill, to make bombs and sent him off to kill the Russians in Afghanistan.

"They didn't give any thought to the fact that once he had done that, he might turn on his creators."

The Mayor said he condemned all suicide bombings.

But he said he understood why Palestinians might resort to the tactic against Israel.

He has also paid tribute to the "swift" and "caring" action taken by the emergency services and transport networks since the London attacks but added that some transport services will remain disrupted for some time.

Mr Livingstone went on to urge Londoners to remain on alert.

He said: "It could happen next week. It may not happen for another four years."

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

He's an IDIOT...I saw that years back before he even became mayor.

He is an example of an over PC, apologetic liberal socialist anti-semite.
And he has just produced exactly the sort of response the terrorists wanted.

His next statement will probably be along the lines of..'We should let in a lot more msulim terrorists into the U.K, to help with international understanding. And we should help arm Palestinian freedom fighters in their struggle against Israel'.

bigverne · Joined: 12 May 2004

Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee · Joined: 25 May 2003

Emu Bitter · Joined: 27 May 2004 Location: Bundang

I have been a suppoter of Red Ken for some of his views, but I'm extremely angry with him for this bollocks.
Capitalism does not = Western culture. It's time the effete left wing(liberals) woke up to that.
The effete left have to be prepared to admit that mickey mouse Eastern religious bollocks aren't the answer either. Gandhi was a an anti African racist that you can stick where the sun don't shine. The Dalai Lama makes the Pope look like a liberal on social issues, wake up you idiots, stop being ashamed of your culture.
Your culture gave you Marx, Lenin, FDR, Huey Long, Jimmy Hoffa these are the views you want to push.
There's nothing wrong with Western Culture, it's bloody successful. Capitalism is the problem & capitalism is not a Western concept, it's universal.
Wake up you fag conservatives & liberals.

happeningthang · Joined: 26 Apr 2003

Joo Rip's rabid patriotism is no surprise, but EB??

Ghandi was an anti-African racist, and the Dalai Lama makes the Pope look Liberal???

Mate, you're going to have to back that one up.

joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

Wangja · Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Seoul, Yongsan

Hank Scorpio · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Ann Arbor, MI

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

happeningthang · Joined: 26 Apr 2003

http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html

This guy seems balanced enough - doesn't make old Tibet and the old order (including the Dalai Lama) a haven of equality.

mithridates · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:26 am Post subject:

I know next to nothing about Tibetan history but a month ago when I was uploading history articles for a wiki that I work on every once in a while I'd see an event like "Tibetan soldiers take the city of x", "Tibet expands into the territory of x" and so on, just like any other country.