British-born bombers: not so shocking spiked online, 13 Jul 2005

http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CAC69.htm
Brendan O'Neill
"al-Qaeda is not, as many have claimed since 9/11, a bunch of foreigners brought up on the dusty backstreets of Cairo or Ramallah and hell-bent on launching war against a faraway West; they tend to be young, respectable, often middle-class and sometimes naive men, many of whom were born or educated - and even radicalised - in the West. For all the talk of a 'clash of civilisations', al-Qaeda is a largely Western phenomenon."