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When London was hit by suicide bombers in July
2005, the dirty little secret inside the historic
cradle of liberty was finally out. Notwithstanding
the staunch resolve of Prime Minister Tony Blair
after 9/11, Great Britain had been the European
hub of Islamist extremism for more than a
decade. Under the noses of British intelligence, a
network of terrorists and their sympathizers had
used Britain to plot, finance, recruit and train for
atrocities in the United States and around the
world. The scale of this activity was so large that
exasperated European security agencies, in a
mocking reference to the Afghan training
grounds for al-Qaeda, dubbed Britain's capital
city "Eondonistan."