Canadian linked to London bombings

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Alleged Canadian link reported

Meanwhile, British police are reportedly investigating a Canadian link to the London bombings that killed dozens and wounded hundreds.

The National Post reports that authorities are investigating 26-year-old Momin Khawaja's possible connection to the attacks.

He was arrested more than a year ago in Ottawa and is awaiting Canada's first-ever trial under the new anti-terrorism act.

Khawaja was denied bail after being accused of conspiring in a plot to bomb British residents in 2004.

The RCMP have said they picked him up in connection with the arrest of nine British residents of Pakistani heritage after he travelled to London in early 2004.

According to the newspaper, one of the four suspects in the London bombings, believed to be 30-year-old Mohammed Sidique Khan, may have been associated with some of the men arrested in and around the British capital in 2004.

On Saturday, Prime Minister Tony Blair said authorities were facing an "evil ideology" in their struggle against Islamic terrorism.

"The greatest danger is that we fail to face up to the nature of the threat that we're dealing with," he said during a speech in London.

"And what we are confronting here is an evil ideology. ... It is a battle of ideas, of hearts and of minds, both within Islam and outside it."

The friends of at least two of the suicide bombing suspects have suggested they were angry over the British military presence in Iraq.

But Blair insisted there was no link between Islamic terrorism and the situation in Iraq, where Britain is the second-largest partner in the U.S.-led coalition.

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