London terror bomings and oil

London Mayor Ken Livingstone told BBC radio on Wednesday that Western intervention in the Middle East since the end of World War I had been motivated by a desire to control the flow of oil, according to CNN. This oil desire has contributed to the growth of Islamic extremism and terrorist groups such as al Qaeda. "Under foreign occupation and denied a right to vote, denied the right to run your own affairs ... I suspect that if it had happened here in England we would have produced a lot of suicide bombers ourselves," said Livingstone.