Tube bombs 'linked to Iraq conflict'

[Briar]

This is what Bliar doesn't want us to think!

Tube bombs 'linked to Iraq conflict'

· Thinktank says war boosts al-Qaida
· Blair dismisses connection

David Hencke, Westminster correspondent

Britain's involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan contributed to the terrorist attacks in London, a respected independent thinktank on foreign affairs, the Chatham House organisation, says today.

According to the body, which includes leading academics and former civil servants among its members, the key problem in the UK for preventing terrorism is that the country is "riding as a pillion passenger with the United States in the war against terror".

It says Britain's ability to carry out counter-terrorism measures has also been hampered because the US is always in the driving seat in deciding policy.

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In the most politically sensitive finding, Chatham House, which used to be known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs, concludes there is "no doubt" the invasion of Iraq has "given a boost to the al-Qaida network" in "propaganda, recruitment and fundraising", while providing an ideal targeting and training area for terrorists. "Riding pillion with a powerful ally has proved costly in terms of British and US military lives, Iraqi lives, military expenditure and the damage caused to the counter-terrorism campaign."

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1530817,00.html

[forintegrity]

1. No shit, Sherlock

Doesn't take a brain surgeon...

[rodeodance]

3. one does NOT need a thinktank to make this link!!.

.....Britain's involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan contributed to the terrorist attacks in London, a respected independent thinktank on foreign affairs, the Chatham House organisation, says today......

[madeline_con]

4. "... a thinktank ..."

I want a thinktank job. They don't have to work long hours!

[CJCRANE]

2. A couple of

my mates started to repeat Blair's crap. I told them MI5 predicted the Iraq war would create a direct terrorist threat to the UK (in fact I even told them before the war, but they seem to have coveniently forgotten).

[madeline_con]

5. Chatham House

Gee, how'd they get so smart?