[Mb-civic] For Britain's Muslims, a Fear Realized - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

For Britain's Muslims, a Fear Realized

By Glenn Frankel and Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, July 14, 2005; Page A17

LONDON, July 13 -- Britain's security services, politicians and Muslim 
community leaders responded with anger and dismay Wednesday to what some 
Muslims called their worst nightmare: the disclosure that the four 
suspected killers in the London transit explosions were homegrown 
Islamic suicide bombers.

Newspapers published copies of the birth certificate of one of the men, 
Shehzad Tanweer, 22, emphasizing that he and his alleged co-conspirators 
were British born and raised. Security analysts said the fact that the 
men apparently had no criminal records and appeared in no intelligence 
file would make it harder to track down their network before it struck 
again.

<>Leaders of the country's 1.6 million-member Muslim community engaged 
in some public soul-searching over how it was that young men of 
relatively well-off backgrounds became so alienated from society and so 
fanatical that they allegedly carried out bombings that killed at least 
52 people and injured 700. They noted that more than 100 incidents of 
threats and attacks, including the killing of one Muslim, have been 
reported since the bombings.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071302314.html?nav=hcmodule 

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