'Why we did it' - new tape from bomber Tanweer

One of the four British suicide bombers who murdered 52 people in London a year ago appeared on an Internet video today accusing his country of declaring war on Islam and oppressing Muslims in Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and Chechnya.

“For the non-Muslims in Britain, you may wonder what you have done to deserve this,” Shehzad Tanweer tells Britons in the tape, an excerpt of which was broadcast on the pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera on Thursday.

Britons continue to oppress “our mothers and children, brothers and sisters from the east to the west in Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and Chechnya,” he said.

“Your government has openly support for the genocide of more than 150,000 innocent Muslims in Fallujah,” he said, referring to the west Iraqi town where United States forces fought Islamic militants for several weeks.

“You have openly declared war on Islam,” he added.