Telegraph | News | Secret Cabinet memo admits Iraq is fuelling UK terror
Telegraph | News | Secret Cabinet memo admits Iraq is fuelling UK terror: "Secret Cabinet memo admits Iraq is fuelling UK terror
By Patrick Hennessy and Sean Rayment, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 11:30pm BST 28/10/2006
Tony Blair's claim that there is no link between Britain's foreign policy and terrorist attacks in this country is blown apart by a secret cabinet memo revealed today.
A classified paper written by senior Downing Street officials says that everything Britain does overseas for the next decade must have the ultimate aim of reducing 'terror activity, especially that in or directed against the UK'.
It admits that, in an ideal world, 'the Muslim would not perceive the UK and its foreign policies as hostile' – effectively accepting the argument that Britain's military action in Iraq and Afghanistan has served as a recruiting sergeant for Islamist terrorist groups. Publicly, Mr Blair has resisted this line fiercely. During his final speech as leader to Labour's annual conference last month, he described such claims as 'enemy propaganda'."
