Seeking Moderate Support, Blair Meets
Muslim Leaders
By ALAN COWELL
Published: July 20, 2005
LONDON, July 19 - Prime Minister Tony Blair met with moderate Muslim leaders on Tuesday, seeking to enlist their support against Islamic extremism and to discount the war in Iraq as the main cause for the London bombings this month.

A new opinion survey published in The Guardian on Tuesday said two-thirds of Britons believed there was a direct link between the bombings on July 7 that claimed 56 lives and Mr. Blair's decision to go to war in Iraq as the main ally of the United States.

One of the 25 Muslim leaders who met Mr. Blair at 10 Downing Street said the invasion had spawned a "successful recruitment sergeant" for Al Qaeda.
The Iraq war has been unpopular with many Britons. Even before a bullet was fired, over one million people marched through London in protest in early 2003. Since then, the decision to side with the White House has haunted Mr. Blair.
"The chaos in Iraq today is a direct consequence of the decision to invade it, and the unforgivable failure to plan how to provide security for the country we had taken over," Robin Cook, a former government minister who resigned to protest against the war, wrote in a newspaper column on Tuesday.
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