Britain's Islamic enemy within

Richard Ford:

SHEHZAD Tanweer, Shazzy to his friends, was a cricket-loving sports science graduate whose father ran the local chip shop.

The Bradford-born 22-year-old who spoke with a broad West Yorkshire accent, boarded an eastbound Circle Line train from London's Kings Cross station a week ago, where he detonated a bomb, killing at least seven commuters.

Britain's intelligence agencies were last night coming to terms with something they had long feared, but hoped they would never face - homegrown jihad.

Tanweer is the shocking new face of Islamic terrorism in Britain, the enemy within, a young Muslim radicalised in the mosques of metropolitan Britain rather than the middle-eastern training camps of al-Qa'ida.

The head of Britain's race relations watchdog, Trevor Phillips, said yesterday the onus was now on Muslim leaders to reassure the public that there was no place in their community or faith for suicide bombers.

And Muslim MP Shahid Malik said: "We have to look within the Muslim community. There is extremism there. We have not done enough to actually deal with that."

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