Posted on 12/15/2008 11:41:32 AM PST by george76
Over three-fourths of terrorist attacks investigated in the UK had Al Qaeda and Pakistan links, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said during a whistlestop tour of India and Pakistan on Sunday. His comment became the latest blow to Pakistan which is trying hard to distance itself from the Mumbai attacks.
After meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to express solidarity with India in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, Brown, in a damning indictment of Pakistan, said, "The group responsible for the attacks is LeT and they have a great deal to answer for."
Brown later travelled to Islamabad and launched a $9 million counter-terrorism programme with Pakistan. He also asked the two countries to give British investigators permission to question terror suspects in both countries.
In India, he asked for British investigators to be given access to arrested terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab. UK investigators have already been given a great degree of access to the investigations.
The request... was an acknowledgment of how close the issue of radical Islam and terrorism had come to British society
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