U.K. official: Iraq fuels terror threat

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U.K. official: Iraq fuels terror threat
By DAVID STRINGER, Associated Press Writer

LONDON - Britain's support for the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq has put the public at greater risk of terrorist attacks, the main opposition Conservative party leader David Cameron said Monday — opening a division on the issue with Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Cameron, setting out interim findings of a security policy review, said his belief the threat to Britain was now greater as a result of the war was "a statement of fact."

"It is clear that over the last few years decisions that have been taken, the difficulties there have been in Iraq, clearly have had a wider effect," Cameron said, speaking at London's Royal United Services Institute, a military think tank.

"That's not to say for one second that in any way disagreeing with British foreign policy justifies in any way any sort of terrorism — of course it doesn't," he said.

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