Sorry to refresh this thread, as I know it's well past it's SBD, but there was an interesting article in todays Sunday Times.
It was by Simon Jenkins and mentioned the "useful idiots" referred to by Shakibus above.
I quote from Mr Jenkins article.

"Terrorism is turning Britian into a banana republic. It is centuries since we cheered a public lynching. If terrorists want evidence of how easy it is to reduce Britain to a crude police state, they need only study the Stockwell shooting.

The truth is that those who want to subvert freedom can always rely on "useful idiots", a phrase Lenin is said to have used of liberal apologists for extremists(but never did).
Modern terrorism neatly inverts this attribution. It relies on"useful idiots" of the right to exploit any terrorist incident to forment xenophobia, suspend civil liberties and seek revenge from any ethnic group vaguely linked to the incident.

Terrorism's "useful idiots" have had a field day this past fortnight.
They have jumped from "nothing can justify the bombing (true) to "nothing can explain the bombing" (absurd).
They have jumped from "Britains war in Iraq is no excuse for killing Londoners"(true) to "Britains war in Iraq has nothing to do with the bombing" (palpably absurd).
They jump from "we must not be driven to alter our way of life" (true) to demanding that we do just that.

The "useful idiots" demand new powers, new restrictions and new measures against the Muslim community.

Above all they declare "war on terror", turn murderers into warriors and incite Islam to proclaim jihad in response."

Now thats exactly what I meant.........Ake