‘Britain told Iraq conflict would fuel terror attack’

LEAKED intelligence documents appear to show the British government was warned just weeks before the July 7 bombings that events in Iraq would fuel the threat of an attack.

The New York Times reported that the documents said the continued occupation of Iraq would stimulate “terrorist related activity in the UK”.

The Joint Terrorist Analysis Centre paper added, however, that “at present there is not a group with both the current intent and the capability to attack the UK”, according to sections of the dossier published in the New York Times.