Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Chief of MI5: "Saddam posed very limited threat to the UK..."

The Guardian/ here

"... Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Manningham-Buller said the threat posed by Saddam Hussein before the US-led invasion in 2003 was low.

But the toppling of Saddam allowed Osama bin Laden to gain a stronghold in Iraq and radicalised young Muslims in Britain, she said.

In evidence that undermined the case for war presented by the former prime minister Tony Blair, she was asked whether it was feared Saddam could have linked terrorists to weapons of mass destruction, facilitating their use against the west.

"It certainly wasn't of concern in either the short term or the medium term to me or my colleagues," she replied...."


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

We all know this, but what is going to be done about the war monger TB? You see as long as the "Victors" rule nothing, nada will be done