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London Bombings are nothing to do with us!
Tony Blair and Jack Straw insist that the events in Iraq have nothing to do with the recent terrorist bombings in London. Almost everyone else, though disagrees. You may not be surprised when a commentator such as John Pilger points out that intelligence reports prior to the war stated that “Iraq ‘exported no terrorist threat to his neighbours’ and that Saddam Hussein was ‘implacably hostile to Al-Qaeda’ ”, and that the Joint Intelligence Committee warned Blair that the terrorist threat to this country would be “heightened by military action against Iraq”. More politically damaging, though, is the recent report from respected independent foreign affairs thinktank Chatham House (formerly the Royal Institute of International Affairs) which says exactly the same thing!
The Downing Street Memos
Meanwhile, leaked official memos have revealed that not only was the decision made to go to war with Iraq in 2002, with intelligence ‘fixed’ to justify war, but that the UN would be used to trap Saddam into a war, and that Iraq would be provoked by intensified bombing. See this report.
Mark Ramsey
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