Thursday, September 28, 2006
A key British "reform" challenge
Has soon-to-be-outgoing British PM Blair really, in some of the areas at front and centre in hearts and minds and that actually count, done enough to "reform" Britain?
The Bill Clinton show extravaganzised Blair's reform credentials. The New Statesman (Zaki Chehab) didn't seem to be ultra-impressed with them a month or so back though:" ... Al-Qaeda's leadership has surveyed the world and it has identified Britain both as a rich source of recruits and as an important target.
" ... Arab leaders such as Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, and Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria had long been frustrated by the British government's refusal to move against Islamist groups that were openly recruiting and raising funds in British cities. ...
" ... Why did (security services) not take more seriously the open warnings from radical Islamist leaders to Arabs and Muslims, advising them not to go to shopping centres or use the Underground in central London?"
