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"Has the British prime minister forgotten who Al-Qaeda's parents are?" Ayatollah Kashani asked thousands of worshippers after Friday prayers at Tehran University.

"It's the illegitimate child of America and Israel, but you name it Islam. This savagery is not Islam. It is coming from inside of you and it is now punching you,"

"You created all this to plague us, but now it is plaguing you. You have done that before, by equipping Saddam with weapons to fight us, but now you are bogged down in Iraq, he sad, referring to the U.S. support of Iraq's toppled leader Saddam Hussein during his 1980-1988 war with Iran.

"You have to learn from this and come to your senses," Sheikh Kashani said.

I am not in any way making excuses for those who think they can solve problems with violence. I am, however, questioning foreign policy that breeds terrorists.