Why the Bullshit?

As ever it hasn't taken long for the usual nonsense about the attacks being a reaction to British/Western foreign policy to come out.

Let me hand over to Hassan Butt from the Observer for a mo',

When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network, a series of semi-autonomous British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology, I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy.
By blaming the government for our actions, those who pushed the 'Blair's bombs' line did our propaganda work for us. More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.

But hey, he could be lying right?

Wrong.

Even if you discount Hassans words (at your peril) just ponder this- what was the provocation for 9/11?

The only Muslim nation America had been in recently was, umm, Somalia. In 1993.

So in essence foreign policy is not the problem, never was the problem but could be a current problem. Islam attacked first.