UK rejects foreign policy link to attack threat

In an open letter to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, British Muslim groups and politicians said his policies on issues like Iraq and the Israel-Hezbollah war were putting civilians at increased risk in Britain and elsewhere.

Thirteen months after four British Islamist suicide bombers killed 52 people on London's transport system, British Muslims fear they are being demonised because of extremist militants.

"We urge the prime minister to redouble his efforts to tackle terror and extremism and change our foreign policy," said the letter, whose signatories included six politicians from Blair's Labour Party.