British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the London bombings were linked to the Middle East situation. “We need to create the circumstances in which there is a proper understanding of people between different faiths, in which some of the critical issues in the Middle East are dealt with and sorted out, and where people can see out there in the Middle East that there is a perfectly good path to democracy if people want to take it,” Blair said in a radio interview Saturday.
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