Ken Livingstone , the normally loquacious mayor of London , who earned considerable respect after the bombings for his restrained response , said in a BBC interview on Wednesday that the blame lay with '' 80 years of Western intervention into predominantly Arab lands because of the Western need for oil . ''
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