War 'not only reason for UK terror'

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War 'not only reason for UK terror'
30 August 2005

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has insisted that there was "no guarantee whatsoever" that Britain would not have been a target for terrorists if it had not taken part in the war in Iraq.

Mr Straw conceded that some Muslims' perceptions of British foreign policy may have been used as a tool for recruiting people to extremist organisations.

He was asked about a letter published by the Observer on Sunday, dated May last year, from Michael Jay, Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Office, to Cabinet Secretary Sir Andrew Turnbull.

This warned that British foreign policy in the Middle East was "a key driver" for recruitment to extremist Muslim groups.

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KEY DRIVER!