Британская разведка: мы войны с Ираком не хотели

[Basil]

The war in Iraq led to a loss of focus on the threat from al-Qaida, emboldened the group's leader Osama bin Laden, and helped to breed a generation of homegrown terrorists, Britain's former domestic spy chief told an inquiry Tuesday.

Making the sharpest criticism so far aired in Britain's inquiry into mistakes made in the Iraq war, Eliza Manningham-Buller, director of the MI5 agency between 2002 and 2007, said Britain's government paid little attention to warnings that the war would fuel domestic terrorism.

Manningham-Buller also said Iraq had posed little threat before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, and insisted there was no evidence of a link between former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

"There was no credible intelligence to suggest that connection and that was the judgment, I might say, of the CIA," she told the inquiry. "It was not a judgment that found favor with some parts of the American machine."
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Manningham-Buller also indicated that MI5 disagreed with then-Prime Minister Tony Blair over a key justification for the war — Iraq's purported harboring of weapons of mass destruction.

Я точно помню, что Буш тогда кивал на Блэра, а тот на доклад британской разведки. А теперь что же, и не было никакого доклада, получается?

[Flash-04]

запросто.

[Basil]

Эх, засудить бы этих двух "B" за публичную ложь, да ведь никто не возьмется.

[Sergunka]

Эх, засудить бы этих двух "B" за публичную ложь, да ведь никто не возьмется.

"Вместо, чтоб поесть, помыться, уколоться и забыться,
Вся безумная больница у экрана собралась." (с)

[ARARAT.]

"Ну кто-же его посадит? Он же памятник..." (c)