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I had just posted this on the Threat Matrix:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,16014368,00.html

London bombs linked to al-Qaeda
From correspondents in London
22jul05

SAUDI Arabia's ambassador to London has linked the latest
wave of attacks in London to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda
extremist network, even if the British authorities have yet to
do so.

"The modus operandi, the sheer cowardice associated with
them and the attacks on innocent civilians - these are all part
and parcel of Al-Qaeda," Prince Turki al-Faisal told BBC radio.

Turki, a former head of Saudi foreign intelligence, and soon
to be Riyadh's ambassador to Washington, was speaking
after Thursday's apparent attempt to repeat the July 7
suicide bombings that killed 56 people and injured some
700.

He said it was a "true criticism" of London that it was too
easy for Islamist extremists to stay and preach messages of
hate without fear of arrest or deportation.

The British government - which has publicly linked the July 7
attacks to Al-Qaeda, but not yet Thursday's incidents -
should exercise more control over them and deport rogue
Muslim clerics, he said.

"Allowing them to go on using the hospitality and the
generosity of the British people to emanate from here such
calls for killing and such, I think is wrong," he said.

Asked if Iraq was a factor in the London attacks, Turki said
that "all areas of grievance" were used as means of
recruitment by violent extremist groups, and that "solving
the problems" would hit recruitment.

But he added: "It is not going to stop these terrorists.
Terrorism has been with humanity for much longer than
that."

Turki defended his oil-rich country's record in tackling
extremists, adding that it was doing everything it could and
working very closely with Britain.

But he added it was difficult to stop extremists entering
Saudi Arabia from Iraq because of its 900km joint border,
which was unmanned on the Iraqi side.

"Asked if Iraq was a factor in the London attacks, Turki said that "all areas of grievance" were used as means of recruitment by violent extremist groups, and that "solving the problems" would hit recruitment. "

This is like reasoning it is the fault of the wealthy person that he is robbed. We can only fight this kind of crime by ending wealth at all costs. What an insane opinion