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London Mayor Defends Suicide BombersReleased on = July 21, 2005, 9:02 am Press Release Author = SEMS Consultancy Industry = Government Press Release Summary = Less than two weeks after suicide bombers wreaked havoc on London killing fifty-four people and injuring 700, the city’s mayor, Ken Livingston has insulted the city on national television, by defending suicide bombers. Press Release Body = In a sequence of extraordinary statements to John Snow, Mr. Livingston effectively condoned suicide bombers, prompting a peer to ask in the House of Lords today, whether bus drivers would feel less safe in view of the Mayor of London’s stated support of suicide bombers. Despite being mayor of a city that suffered such a devastating loss of life at the hands of suicide terrorists, Mr Livingston responded to John Snow’s comment that Palestinians “fighting back does involve killing civilians” by saying that, “And that is a point you are not going to get over”. He went on to defend Sheikh Qaradawi, a fundamentalist supporter of suicide bombings in the Middle East, as “the most progressive Islamic theologian in the world” and equated soldiers fighting in military campaigns with suicide bombers attacking innocent civilians. Many people are now calling for the Prime Minister to ask Mr Livingston to either categorically condemn all suicide bombers or to stand down as Mayor of London. Web Site = http:// Contact Details
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