Leak shows Blair told of Iraq war terror link
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1558066,00.html
=B7 Top official warned in 2004 of British Muslim anger
=B7 Secret document said UK seen as 'crusader state'
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Martin Bright, home affairs editor
Sunday August 28, 2005
The Observer
The Foreign Office's top official warned Downing Street that the Iraq
war was fuelling Muslim extremism in Britain a year before the 7 July
bombings, The Observer can reveal.
Despite repeated denials by Number 10 that the war made Britain a
target for terrorists, a letter from Michael Jay, the Foreign Office
permanent under-secretary, to the cabinet secretary, Sir Andrew
Turnbull - obtained by this newspaper - makes the connection clear.
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