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Britain
Iraq war increased terrorist threat to the UK, former MI5 chief tells Chilcot Inquiry
2010-07-21
Baroness Manningham-Buller added that the decision to remove Saddam Hussein had caused a "long-term major and strategic problem" for Britain by allowing al-Qaeda time to build a stronghold in Afghanistan unnopposed.

She told the inquiry: "Our involvement in Iraq radicalised, for want of a better word, a whole generation of young people - not a whole generation, a few among a generation - who saw our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as being an attack on Islam...
The alternative was that Saddam Hussein had regained control over Kuwait and threatened Saudi Arabia, with the goal of controlling the majority of the world's oil production. And he was sponsoring and training a variety of terror groups, including Al Qaeda, so that had we not conquered Iraq in 2003, we would now be looking at Saddam Hussein threatening to choke off oil to Europe and Asia to reward and punish, while loosing or tightening his hold on terror groups with plausible deniability. Is that a preferable scenario, Baroness Manningham-Buller?
Posted by:tipper

#3  ION BRITANNIA = LONDONISTAN/ANGLO-RABIA,

* DAILY TIMES.PK > UK COULD START KABUL PULLOUT IN 2011: PM CAMERON.

and

* NEWS KERALA > NO UK TROOPS IN AGHANISTAN IN 2015.

PM David Cameron > UK Aghan Pullout will occur presuming that Local Aghan Govt + Aghan Army-Police forces prove competent enough to take over. NO UK COMBAT ROLE + SIZABLE OR POTENT UK MIL PRESENCE COME 2015, save for various ADVISORY GROUPS-ELEMENTS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-07-21 23:32  

#2  You said it so much more efficiently than I, Shipman.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-07-21 13:54  

#1  The Polish Affair of 1939 increased the chances of terror also. A LOT.
Posted by: Shipman   2010-07-21 13:28  

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