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Iraq War Increased Terrorist Threat to the UK, Former MI5 Chief Tells Chilcot Inquiry, By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter

The war in Iraq led to a huge increase in the terrorist threat to the UK, the former head of MI5 has told the Iraq Inquiry. Baroness Manningham-Buller added that the decision to remove Saddam Hussein had caused a "long-term major and strategic problem" for Britain by allowing al-Qaeda time to build a stronghold in Afghanistan unnopposed. She told the …

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