Medicos Attack Britain
Dilrook Kannangara
Suspected Al-Qaeda rebels have carried out an attack on the Glasgow
airport according to the British police. However, the rebels have not
assumed responsibility so far.
Just a few days to the July 7 attack on the London transport system
two years ago, for the first time in British territory, an explosive
laden jeep was used to penetrate an airport building. However, there
was no blast and instead a huge fireball engulfed the vehicle. Two suspects
were arrested one with severe burns.
This comes after increased efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq by coalition
forces including the British forces to hunt down Al Qaeda rebels where
a large number of Muslim civilians including many children were killed
by the coalition forces recently. The US and the UK governments have
thus far not apologised officially to the Afghan people for the so-called
“mishaps”.
Saturday’s incident sparked many arrests in Britain and a number
of Muslim residents have already been taken into custody. Imitiaz (not
his real name) a Muslim living in London says he feels increasingly
insecure as the British police has started an arrest spree against ethnic
Muslims on suspicion of supporting Al Qaeda. He also feels that British
Muslims are unduly harassed after the London bombing two years ago and
recommends solving underlying issues to bring peace without fuelling
more anger and alienation.
The sentiment in Bagdad about the incident was different. Many Bagdad
residents feel that their country was ruined after the 2003 invasion
by the now occupying forces (including British forces) and few hoped
that Londoners would not get a taste of the violence in Bagdad, though
many were not so hopeful. However, the Diana Concert proceeded as planned
and life has more or less returned to normalcy in the UK, a convenience
Iraqis don’t have. Meanwhile another car bomb exploded in a crowded
district of Bagdad today.
British security personnel believe there can be more planned attacks
and raised the security level to ‘critical’ while the new
PM has called for unity. Some political analysts say this is a bad start
for the new PM and a grim reminder of his predecessor’s blunders.
A daring attack on iconic locations in London would give immense media
hype to Islamic rebels the world over.
Daily casualty figures from the two battlefronts in Iraq and Afghanistan
indicate that the world has become a more dangerous place after the
“war on terror” was launched. Even moderate Muslims like Dr
Mahathir Mohammad (the architect of modern Malaysia) have denounced
it and called it the Forth World War (Cold War being the third). Moderate
British Muslims believe that conflicts with Islamic rebel groups could
only be solved by negotiations and peace talks. A very good example
they cite, is the plight of many Westerners taken hostage in Iraq whose
lives could have been saved very easily had their governments talked
to the rebels. They urge the US, Britain and others of the ‘coalition
of the willing’ to shed their crusaders’ campaign and sit
down for talks with Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and other Islamic groups. Each
day that passes without serious efforts for negotiations only fuels
further and more violent attacks at times least expected, they say;
even nuclear, chemical and biological attacks cannot be ruled out if
this rate of global degeneration continues according to some defence
analysts.
What is more alarming is the fact that two of the arrested suspects
were doctors. All the 9/11 and 7/7 attackers were also educated and
well to do young people. Therefore, the core issue is not some fanatic
or sectarian euphoria of some underage child soldiers as in Africa,
but a serious and compelling cause that turns British doctors into suicide
bombers. However, British authorities do not seem to have apprehended
this reality. Britain is home to many foreign terrorist leaders, including
the Chechnyan Islamic rebel leader and senior Tamil Tiger rebels.
Al Qaeda is fighting for a religious cause for the 1.5 billion Muslims
the world over for the past few decades. Their attacks increased after
Britain and other coalition forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq
in 2003. Ensuing violence has thus far killed more than a million Muslims
with a further 3 million displaced. Coalition forces have neither captured
Osama Bin Laden nor found weapons of mass destruction after more than
four years of war. Al Qaeda was financed by the West in the 1980s to
fight the Soviet forces.
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