December 3, 2008 (LPAC)--The British government has been sitting on a demand from the Indian government to track down terrorists of the Lashkar e-Toiba (LeT) and related Islamic fundamentalist networks since at least 2003--which the British have ignored!

In July, 2006, while attending the meeting of the Group of 8 heads of state meeting in Moscow, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh confronted British Prime Minister Tony Blair, just after the bloody train attacks in Mumbai, where 207 people were killed and 600 injured, about Britain's harboring terrorists. In an article in EIR, ``Behind the Mumbai Bombings: Tracking the British Role,'' (August 4, 2006), Ramtanu Maitra reported:

``According to the London {Times}, during a discussion between Prime Minister Singh and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, at the G-8 summit in Russia, after the Mumbai bombings, the Indian leader reminded Blair of a detailed dossier that had been handed over, three years ago, which identified 14 men suspected of involvement in the Mumbai bombings, as living in Britain. Blair is said to have assured Singh that the suspects would be investigated.

``Another British paper, the Birmingham Mail, reported that a jailed taxi driver, of Pakistani origin, and now from the British Midlands, is also being questioned in connection with the Mumbai blasts. The man is currently serving a nine-year sentence for raising funds and buying weapons for the Lashkar-e-Toiba.

``It is widely acknowledged that the origin of most of the international Islamic jihads, lies in London. To those who are aware of the huge number of Islamic militants harbored by British authorities, London is known as ``Londonistan.'' Camille Tawil, a terrorism expert at the Arabic daily Al-Hayat, told the New Statesman: ``The Islamists use Britain as a propaganda base, but wouldn't do anything to a country that harbors them and gives them freedom of speech.'' What Ms. Tawil did not mention is that these Islamists, perhaps to maintain their bases and prosper, carry out murderous activities against other nations when they are ordered to do so.

``For instance, more than 600 Islamists from Britain had gone to join the Afghan mujahideen in the 1980s, to fight the erstwhile Soviet Army. Most of them remained there to join the Taliban and al-Qaeda."

Maitra also highlighted the role of organized crime kingpin Dawood Ibrahim in the same article: "India has also urged Pakistan to hand over the self-exiled Mumbai mafia-don Dawood Ibrahim, who shuttles between Dubai and Karachi. Dawood, an underworld hood, had long been a Pakistani ISI asset. Long before he fled to Dubai in the 1990s, Dawood, who dealt in opium, heroin, and smuggled goods, had built up a strong underground network in Mumbai, Nepal, northern Bihar, and possibly within the Muslim community of West Bengal. Subsequently, these networks carried out terrorist acts within India."