THE TELEGRAPH: American missile attacks and unprecedented raids inside Pakistan could provoke terror attacks in London, Pakistan's high commissioner to the UK has warned.
Wajid Shamsul Hasan said the US bombings targeting Taliban and al-Qaeda suspects, secretly ordered by President George Bush, were making the streets of Britain "less safe".
Resentment was mounting, he warned, among the hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis in Britain, with community leaders calling for that anger to be "organised".
His remarks followed outrage in Pakistan over five attacks in the past 10 days, including a ground assault in the village of Angoor Adda in which 20 people were killed. US officials said they were all supporters of terrorism but Pakistan insists they were civilians, including women and children.
Mr Hasan said: "This will infuriate Muslims in this country and make the streets of London less safe. There are one million Pakistanis in the diaspora here and resentment is mounting. I'm being flooded by text messages from community leaders saying we must organise our anger.
"The Americans' trigger-happy actions will radicalise young Muslims. They're playing into the hands of the very militants we're supposed to be fighting." American Raids inside Pakistan Could Provoke Terror Attacks in London, Says Top Official >>> By Richard Edwards | September 14, 2008
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