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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/us-fears-over-uk-extremists-leaked.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="US concerns that the UK was struggling to cope with homegrown extremism have been revealed in a secret cable released through WikiLeaks" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-us-fears-over-uk-extremists-leaked.jpg" alt="US concerns that the UK was struggling to cope with homegrown extremism have been revealed in a secret cable released through WikiLeaks"/></a></p>
<p>US concerns that the UK was struggling to cope with homegrown extremism have been revealed in a secret cable released through WikiLeaks, which said that the government made &#8220;little progress&#8221; in engaging with the UK&#8217;s Muslim community in the year after the July 7 bomb attacks in London.</p>
<p>The cable noted that Tony Blair&#8217;s administration invested &#8220;considerable time and resources&#8221; in a drive to isolate radicals from the mainstream Muslim community after the 2005 attacks.</p>
<p>But it said that tensions continued, with some British Muslims blaming the government&#8217;s foreign policy for inciting extremism, distrusting the motives behind the arrest of terror suspects and regarding official attempts at engagement as &#8220;a publicity stunt&#8221;.</p>
<p>The latest revelations emerged on the day that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was due to face a court in London as part of the Swedish authorities&#8217; efforts to have him extradited for questioning over sex allegations, which he strongly denies.</p>
<p>The cable, leaked to the whistleblowing website and reported in The Guardian, was sent to Washington from the US Embassy in London in August 2006, shortly after the publication of a highly critical open letter about UK government policy signed by prominent Muslims including Sadiq Khan &#8211; now shadow justice secretary.</p>
<p>Noting the anger of many British Muslims about issues such as the arrest of suspects over the failed liquid bomb plot to blow up transatlantic airliners, and Mr Blair&#8217;s failure to call for a ceasefire in Israel&#8217;s assault on Lebanon, the cable said: &#8220;Since 7/7, HMG has invested considerable time and resources in engaging the British Muslim community.</p>
<p>&#8220;The current tensions demonstrate just how little progress has been made. At the same time, the Muslim community&#8217;s reaction to the arrests of 24 of its own sons &#8211; a knee-jerk reaction blaming HMG &#8211; shows that its leaders too have far to go. That said, the Muslim community is not the only element in Britain blaming HMG&#8217;s foreign policy for inciting radical elements; the left in particular but even the mainstream press has expressed the belief, reportedly widespread, that homegrown terrorism is an `inevitable&#8217; response to the UK&#8217;s involvement in Iraq and reluctance to call for an `immediate ceasefire&#8217; in the Middle East.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ministers including John Reid, Margaret Beckett and Douglas Alexander gave a &#8220;rather heated response to the letter&#8221; which was &#8220;undoubtedly aimed at swaying broader opinion&#8221;, said the cable, which also passed on media reports that Mr Blair considered cutting short his holiday in Barbados amid the row.</p>
<p>The US diplomat quoted Mr Khan &#8211; then a backbench Labour MP &#8211; criticising a key plank of the government&#8217;s policy of engagement with UK Muslims.</p>
<p>&#8220;Labour MP Sadiq Khan said the community feels &#8216;let down&#8217; by HMG efforts to date, particularly the &#8216;Preventing Extremism Together&#8217; task forces, which the Home Office created after the 7/7 attacks,&#8221; said the cable. &#8220;Very few of the 64 measures recommended by Muslim leaders on the task force have been implemented, Khan said, creating an &#8216;air of despondency&#8217; and leading the community to believe that the entire exercise was just a publicity stunt.&#8221;</p>
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