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Blair calls on Muslims to confront 'evil ideology'

Islamic scholars issue fatwa against suicide bombing; attack details emerged on bombers' Pak trip

AGENCIES, London
Prime Minister Tony Blair called on Britain's Muslim community yesterday to confront the "evil ideology" behind the London bombings following a meeting with leaders from Islamic groups in the country.
Muslim Britons and others must "confront this evil ideology, take it on and defeat it by the force of reason and argument," Blair told reporters.
The prime minister was speaking at a joint press conference with visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai, following his meeting with 25 Muslim leaders, including lawmakers, businesspeople and religious
figures.
The gathering "revolved around the very strong desire of people from right across the Muslim community in our country" to deal with the problem, Blair said.
As well as condemning the July 7 attacks in which at least 56 people died, the Muslim representatives expressed their determination to "confront and deal with head on the extremism that is based on a perversion of the true faith of Islam, but nonetheless is real within parts of our community here in this country," Blair added.
Blair is keen to enlist the support of Muslim groups to combat what he
dubbed at the weekend the "evil ideology" touted by Islamic extremist terror groups such as al-Qaeda.
Three of the four men blamed for the suicide bombings on July 7 which ripped apart three London Underground trains and a bus in the capital, in which at least 56 people died, were British-born Muslims of Pakistani origin.
The fourth was a Jamaican-born Briton who converted to Islam.
al spokesman said ahead of the talks.
"We have to have action in the communities and take on in a rea She ^tar
soned argument the false propaganda that's put out at a local level, a national level and internationallevel."
Blair's meeting comes a day after more than 500 British Muslim leaders and scholars condemned the killings and said suicide bombings were "vehemently prohibited."
The British Muslim Forum issued the Fatwa, or formal legal opinion, as more than 50 Muslim leaders from around Britain stood outside the Houses of Parliament, the BBC reported.
However, Inayat Bunglawala from the Muslim Council of Britain, said the government also had to take action.
There had been a "clear increasein disenchantment" among Muslim youths, Bunglawala told GMTV television.
"We need a partnership between government and Muslims to show people they are not being ignored and that their concerns will be heard," he said.
A massive police investigation into the rush-hour blasts has increasingly focused on Pakistan, particularly visits to the country reportedly undertaken by the three attackers with family ties to the country.
British authorities are sure that an Egyptian biochemist being questioned in Egypt had no role in the London bombings, a state-owned Egyptian newspaper said yesterday, quoting a senior security official.
Egyptian authorities last week detained Magdy Elnashar, who has denied any role in the attacks, which killed 56 people. Police have been searching Elnashar's rented flat in Leeds in connection with the bombings. Three of the four British bombers were from the same area in the north of England.
"There is complete security cooperation with the British side, which is convinced from the questioning carried out by Egypt, that Elnashar had no role in these explosions," al-Ahram newspaper quoted the security source as saying.
Several British papers carried lengthy reports Tuesday about a trip to Pakistan made last November by two of the suspected bombers, 22-year-old Shahzad Tanweer and Mohammad Sadique Khan, 30.
According to The Times, which carried grainy security pictures of the pair passing through immigration at Karachi airport, Pakistani authorities know the identity of the British-born mastermind behind the attacks.
"We believe this is where they could have met their mentor," a Pakistani security source was quoted as saying.
The third Pakistani-British bomber, 18-year-old Hasib Mir Hussain, travelled separately to Karachi last year, newspapers reported.
Britain's interior minister moved a step closer Monday to passing tough new anti-terrorism laws by December after he won "broad support" from the opposition parties in the wake of the London bombings.
The news came as the death toll from the country's worst terror attack rose by one to 56, and as a report linked Britain's support of the Iraq war to the July 7 atrocity, turning up the heat on Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Home Secretary Charles Clarke said he and his counterparts in the main opposition Conservative and smaller Liberal Democrat parties agreed in principle to co-operate on the draft legislation following hour-long talks.
"We believe that is the right way to go and we believe that it will enable us
to address the threat we face with a unity and determination which is critical," Clarke, flanked by David Davis of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats' Mark Oaten, told reporters.
The bill is expected to be put before lawmakers in October when parliament reopens after its summer recess and become law by December.
On Tuesday, British finance minister Gordon Brown announced an extra 10 million pounds (14.5 million euros, 17 million dollars) in funding for London's Metropolitan Police to help fight terrorism.
The same sum would be given to help victims of the attacks, a statement from the Treasury said.
Also Tuesday, a poll suggested that the July blasts could prove politically damaging to Blair due to members of the public blaming his decision to back the US-led war in Iraq for making Britain a more high-profile terrorist target.
A day after a study by a leading British think tank said the Iraq war made Britain more vulnerable, a poll showed two-thirds of people thought there was a link between the London bombings and the conflict.
Asked whether Blair's decision to join the Iraq invasion was responsible for the bombings, 33 percent of respondents to the poll in the Guardian newspaper said the prime minister bore "a lot of responsibility", and another 31 percent said he had "a little".
The report linking the Iraq war and the attacks, by the Royal Institute of International Affairs think tank, also known as Chatham House, was dismissed Monday by the government, with Foreign Secretary Jack Straw pronouncing himself "astonished". (AFP, Reuters)