Simon Tisdall (Guardian Utd): Britain pays price for foreign policy

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From the Guardian Unlimited (UK)
Dated Tuesday July 26

World Briefing
In fight against terror, Britain pays price for foreign policy
By Simon Tisdall

Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's revived proposal, endorsed by Tony Blair, for an international conference on combating terrorism reflects a human need for solidarity in the aftermath of dreadful events. It is also a way for politicians to show they are doing something.

But this sort of international coordination has been attempted before, notably through the UN in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

The uncomfortable reality facing British investigators into the London bombings is that key foreign governments have their own political perspectives on the nature of the threat; or are preoccupied as Egypt is now with their own terrorist emergencies.

Political leaders in the Arab and Muslim spheres may also be privately disinclined to go out of their way to help a British government whose policies they deplore and whose wounds they regard as partly self-inflicted.

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1. Interesting, thank you.

tony needs to get his "own house in order" all right.

I don't see how he could have been more stupid than to let the rove machine lead him by the nose into Iraq?