Top UK official warned Iraq war fuelled extremism (leaked memo)

[leftchick]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28620297.htm

LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - A top British government official warned Prime Minister Tony Blair last year that Britain's involvement in the Iraq war was fostering Muslim extremism at home, according to a leaked memo published on Sunday.

The warning was delivered just over a year before four British Muslims carried out bombings of London's transport network, killing themselves and 52 other people.

Two weeks later, similar attempted bombs by another group of British residents failed to detonate.

The Observer newspaper printed a letter from Michael Jay, the top civil servant at the Foreign Office, dated May 2004 which said invading Iraq had made Britain a target for terrorists.

memo here...

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foi/images/0,9069,1558170,00.html

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Why does 2+2 = 4 for those us us here, but 5, or 8, or whatever....

for the dim bulbs on the right? What has happened to the wiring in their brains?

[Lorenzo]

2. The world said so during the run up to the War

I remember Dominique de Villepin and Joschka Fischer sketching the scenario's if the US/UK decided to go to war illegally.

On French, German and Pan-European television, they warned on several occassions that Blair was asking for bomb attacks in London. That was the year 2003.

You don't need a big intellectual effort to come to that conclusion.

[Ilsa]

3. Tony must have bought into Dick's flower-tossing scenario. eom

[Moderator]

4. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1732078