British Policy Has Contributed To The Present Threat Of Terrorism

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Britain Contributed To Global Terrorism.

Britain has historically contributed to the development of global terrorism, the current threat to Britain is not simply’ blowback’, since Whitehall’s collusion with radical Islam is continuing in order to bolster the British position in the Middle East.
Planners not only continue their special relationships with Riyadh and Islamabad, but they have also recently been conniving with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Islamists and their supporters in Libya.

In a different way, the British are now also in effect collaborating with elements of the Taliban in Afghanistan in a desperate effort to find an exit from an increasingly disastrous war.
The roots of British collusion with radical Islam go back to the divide and rule policies promoted during the empire, when British officials regularly sought to cultivate Muslim groups or individuals to counter emerging nationalist forces challenging British hegemony.

It is well known that British planners helped create the modern Middle East during and after the First World War by placing rulers in territories drawn up by British planners.
But British policy also involved restoring the Caliphate, the leadership of the Muslim world, back to Saudi Arabia, where it would come under British control, a strategy which had tremendous significance for the future Saudi kingdom and the rest of the world.

After the Second World War, British planners were confronted with the imminent loss of empire and the rise of two new superpowers, but were determined to maintain as much political and commercial influence in the world as possible.
Although Southeast Asia and Africa were important to British planners, largely due to their raw material resources, it was the Middle East, due to its colossal oil reserves, over which London mainly wanted to exert influence.

Yet here, a major enemy arose in the form of popular Arab nationalism, led by Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, which sought to promote an independent foreign policy and end Middle Eastern states’ reliance on the West.
To contain the threat, Britain and the U.S. not only propped up conservative, pro-Western monarchs and feudal leaders but also fomented covert relationships with Islamist forces, notably the Muslim Brotherhood, to destabilise and overthrow the nationalist governments.
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Jihadist Groups Allowed To Operate From London.

After the Afghanistan war in the 1980s spawned a variety of terrorist forces, including al-Qaida, terrorist atrocities began to be mounted first in Muslim countries and then, in the 1990s, in Europe and the U.S.

Yet, Britain continued to see some of these groups as useful, principally as proxy guerilla forces in places as diverse as Bosnia, Azerbaijan, Kosovo and Libya; there, they were used either to help break up the Soviet Union and secure major oil interests or to fight nationalist regimes, this time those of Slobodan Milosevic in Yugoslavia and Muammar Qadafi in Libya.

Throughout this period, many jihadist groups and individuals found refuge in Britain, some gaining political asylum, while continuing involvement in terrorism overseas.
Whitehall not only tolerated but encouraged the development of ‘Londonistan’– the capital acting as a base and organising centre for numerous jihadist groups, even as this provided a de facto ‘green light’ to that terrorism.

I suggest that some elements, at least, in the British establishment may have allowed some Islamist groups to operate from London not only because they provided information to the security services but also because they were seen as useful to British foreign policy, notably in maintaining a politically divided Middle East – a long-standing goal of imperial and postwar planners – and as a lever to influence foreign governments’ policies.
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Britain’s Secret Deals With Saudi Arabia.

British collusion with radical Islam has helped promote two big geo-strategic foreign policy objectives.
The first is influence and control over key energy resources, always recognised in the British planning documents as the number one priority in the Middle East.
British operations to support or side with Islamist forces have generally aimed at maintaining in power or installing governments that will promote Western-friendly oil policies.

The second objective has been maintaining Britain’s place within a pro-Western global financial order.
The Saudis have invested billions of dollars in the U.S. and British economies and banking systems, and Britain and the U.S. have similarly large investments and trade with Saudi Arabia; it is these that are being protected by the strategic alliance with Riyadh.

Since the period of 1973–75, when British officials secretly made a range of deals with the Saudis to invest their oil revenues in Britain there has been a tacit Anglo–American–Saudi pact to maintain this financial order, which has entailed London and Washington turning a blind eye to whatever else the Saudis spend their money on.
This has been accompanied, on the Saudi side, by a strategy of bankrolling Islamist and jihadist causes and a ‘Muslim’ foreign policy aimed at maintaining the Saud family in power.
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The Government Pose As Our Protector.

British policy has contributed to the present threat of terrorism, although this dare not be mentioned in mainstream British culture.
It is only the anti-Soviet jihad in 1980s Afghanistan that is well known as contributing to the emergence of terrorist groups.
Even here, much more attention has been paid to the covert U.S. role than the British.
As for the rest of history, there is virtually complete silence, similar to the darkness that prevails over other episodes in Britain’s recent foreign policy, where less than the noblest of intentions were in evidence.
The British public has been deprived of key information to understand the roots of current terrorism and the role that government institutions, who pose as our protectors, have played in endangering us.
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