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Cabinet told of Iraq war risk to UK, says ex-MI5 chief

A former head of MI5 discloses in the Guardian today that she warned ministers and officials that an invasion of Iraq would increase the terrorist threat to Britain.

Lady Manningham-Buller says that as US and British forces were preparing to invade Iraq, she asked: "Why now?" She adds: "I said it as explicitly as I could. I said something like, 'The threat to us would increase because of Iraq'."

MI5 knew that invading Iraq would make its task much more difficult by breeding resentment and hostility among Britain's large Muslim community.

Read entire article at Guardian (UK)