London Homicide Bombers Were Funded By BBC's 'Children in Need'

Some people would have complained, but of course that would have caused a grave offense to the people who want to kill them.

Funny how that is.

The BBC's Children in Need gave £20,000 raised by the general public to fund the 7/7 bombers, it emerged last night.

The cash was given to an Islamic bookshop operated by bombers Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer who spent it on propaganda videos glorifying Jihad.

It also funded computers, gym equipment and the notorious rafting trip to North Wales made by the pair a month before the attacks on London in 2005, which killed 52 and maimed hundreds.

Relatives of those who died in the atrocity claimed Children in Need was hampered from asking about the money for fear of causing offence to Muslims.

Children in Need Chief Executive David Ramsden last night said he was 'extremely concerned' and ordered an investigation.

But he insisted the charity had had no idea the money was being used to fund terrorism.

The £20,000 was part of an award made to Leeds Community School in the Beeston area of the city

The school was awarded just short of £250,000, of which £20,000 came from Children in Need and was given between 1999 and 2002.

Along with the school, the money also paid for the adjoining Iqra bookshop, which was run by the bombers and was the first place they came together to hatch their plans.

Children in Need and Leeds Council thought they were funding educational work for local children.

Instead, according to Martin Gilbertson, who worked at both the bookshop and the community centre, the atmosphere was anything but educational.

'They blamed everything on the Jewish conspiracy, they hated western culture it was like living with Jihad on a daily basis', he said.

They and Khalid Khaliq, who was jailed this year for terrorism offences, were all trustess of the Beeston Iqra charity.

According to Mr Gilbertson all three made a point of persuading local authorities to hand over hundreds of thousands of pounds which they subsequently used for terror purposes.

When Mohammed Siddique Khan detonated his bomb at Edgware Road tube station one of those who died was 22-year-old David Foulkes who was on his way to a job interview.

His father Graham Foulkes, from Oldham near Manchester, said he was 'horrified' and 'staggered' Children in Need had been funding those who killed his boy. But he claimed that he knew why no questions had been asked.

He said: 'There is a fear of anybody putting their hands up and saying 'just a minute NO' that the community will use that as - will accuse people of being racist or islamophobic and people are so frightened of being branded or labelled with these things that the easy thing to do is just to say yes and give them the money and I think the Jihadist network know that, they manipulate that, they manage it, and they will pull the wool over our eyes'.

Aided and abetted by our friends on the left.