"I think we have just had 80 years of Western intervention in predominantly Arab lands because of the Western need for oil.
"We have propped up unsavoury governments, we have overthrown ones that we didn't consider sympathetic.
"And I think the particular problem we have at the moment is that in the 1980s the Americans recruited and trained Osama bin Laden, taught him how to kill, to make bombs and sent him off to kill the Russians in Afghanistan and they didn't give any thought to the fact that once he had done that, he might turn on his creators."
"I think Londoners just weren't going to be divided. We aren't stupid. Those bombs are there to create a backlash, to fuel inter-communal violence, and that becomes a recruiting ground for terrorists."
