Oh dear: MI5 analysts admit link between Iraq war and bombings

[stackpole]

So all that bollocks from Tony Blair was, er, bollocks. And given the dates on this, he knew it was bollocks all along. He just can not stop lying, can he.

MI5 analysts admit link between Iraq war and bombings

IRAQ has become “a dominant issue” for Islamic extremists in Britain, MI5 has admitted.

In a fresh analysis of the threat facing Britain from international terrorist groups, the acknowledgement underlines the view of the security and intelligence services that Iraq has provided an extra motivating force for terrorists.

Contributing to the agency’s official website after the July 7 bombings, under the heading “Threat to the UK from international terrorism”, a team of MI5 analysts concludes: “Though they have a range of aspirations and ‘causes’, Iraq is a dominant issue for a range of extremist groups and individuals in the UK and Europe.”

After the suicide bombings in London, Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, said there was no connection between them and the war in Iraq. (so did Tony Blair) This conflicted with a leaked assessment by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, based at MI5 and run by a Ministry of Defence official, which claimed, three weeks before July 7 that Iraq was continuing to act “as a focus of a range of terrorist related activities in Britain”.

[AtW]

Tony Blair chosen his words carefully -- he said that war in Iraq or Afganistan can't justify suicide bombings, and he is rightin this respect, however he workarounded question is war in IRaq made it more likely to have suicide bombings in the UK, and the answer to this is certainly yes: something anti-war voices were warning about, AQ and Bin LAden are no doubt pleased beyond their expectations.

[vista]

Iraq

Blair and co make me laugh, they welcome the sh 1t of humanity into this country, bomb the F v ck out of their backward, ignorant countries then act all surprised when the sc um kick off with bombs - what a f v ckin laugh.

You either wipe the mother f v ckers out "genocide is the only way to be completely safe" or leave well alone. What you don't do is fund a bunch of hostiles with social security defended by the fifth column led by your wife then p1 ss them off by invading their country - its not that difficult really is it even a 'so bent they're crooked' politicians should be able to figure that out and these idiots are meant to be our leaders.

Role on the turkey shoot - the police's shoot to kill policy is providing an emense amount of fun.

[Not So Wise]

Tony Blair chosen his words carefully -- he said that war in Iraq or Afganistan can't justify suicide bombings,

If you read back to the news reports on first few days you will see he was saying same thing as Straw, then 2 reports came out, one from his own intelegence people stated what we all knew already,it was linked, he then changed it "can't justify suicide bombings"

[DimPrawn]

they welcome the sh 1t of humanity into this country.

Hey that's no way to talk about AtW.

[Lucifer Box]

TB's excuse was that the bombers were using Iraq as an excuse. So that's alright then.

[threaded]

AtW: I do wish you would wake up. Britain and American being at war in Iraq means that France and German have less chance of being bombed.

There was that Dutch guy killed and numerous others have received death threats, yet are the Netherlands in this Iraq?

Saying UKUSA is at more risk is absolute nonsense. Every sane person is at risk from these loonies.

[benn0]

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Saying UKUSA is at more risk is absolute nonsense. Every sane person is at risk from these loonies.[/QUOTE]

Yes, but that wouldn't give all the tories on this board an excuse for blair bashing would it?

[wendigo100]

TB's excuse was that the bombers were using Iraq as an excuse. So that's alright then.

Blair did not appreciate what a good job Saddam Hussein was doing keeping all those insurgents and Al Quaeda in line.

I believe that Blair's support for getting rid of the bogeyman was an exercise in self-agrandisement that backfired massively.

[wendigo100]

Saying UKUSA is at more risk is absolute nonsense.

I beg to differ. Everyone is at more risk than they were, and therefore that includes the UK.