The Government's involved always attempt to deflect any sniff of controversy that they could be in anyway complicit and berate anyone who equates the two which is to ignore the many reports by the World's intelligence committee's who assessed that the threat from terrorists increased at the onset of any military action in the Middle East, reflecting intensified anti-Western sentiment including among Islamic communities in the West.
The Defence Academy for the Ministry of Defence concluded that: 'The war in Iraq has acted as a recruiting sergeant for extremists' and an ex-MI5 boss told the Iraq Enquiry that MI5 had asked for a doubling of the MI5 budget in the aftermath of the Iraq invasion to counter the forthcoming increase in UK terrorism.
Australia's Office of National Assessments said: 'Iraq has been clearly used as a recruiting tool for terrorist groups around the globe' and a US national security analyst, said: 'Our study shows that the Iraq conflict has shown a rising number of terrorist attacks from London to Kabul, and from Madrid to the Red Sea'.
Tony Blair, the junior member in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, admitted the spate of terror attacks sweeping Europe that: 'You can’t say those of us who removed Saddam in 2003 bear no responsibility for the situation' so to answer the original question: Has our foreign policy heightened the threat of terrorism?
If you listen to the Government desperate to avoid an iota of blame, then no but if you listen to the intelligence community of the major nations of the World, it's a resounding yes.
So we should condemn terrorists and remember and pay tribute to the for too many sad deaths of innocent people because some fruitcake religious nut who decided they should act in their Gods name but we should never forget the people who are directly responsible for putting turbo chargers under their ignorant causes.
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