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Iraqi war raised terror threat
18/12/2006 22:41 - (SA)
London - Britain would face a lower terrorist threat if the Iraq war had not "gone so badly wrong", a former top intelligence advisor said in comments published on Monday.
Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, former chair of the joint intelligence committee (JIC), said Prime Minister Tony Blair's government had been slow to realise the dangers of extremists after the 2003 war.
"There comes a time when you do have to recognise the realities rather frankly - you cannot move forward unless you do," Neville-Jones told the Evening Standard newspaper.
"I think it is the case that the terrorist threat to this country would not have been so great, firstly if we had recognised the seriousness of the threat earlier and, secondly, if the Iraq intervention had not gone so badly wrong."
Blair and other ministers have vigorously denied any link between Britain's foreign policy and terror attacks on Britain.
- AFP
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