World overestimates terror threat, says Blix

THE world is overestimating the dangers of global terrorism, especially when compared with environmental risks, former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said yesterday.

"I think we still overestimate the danger of terror," Mr Blix said. "There are other things that are of equal, if not greater, magnitude, like the environmental global risks," he said.

Mr Blix was speaking after British Prime Minister Tony Blair had given an impassioned defence of his decision to back the US-led war against Iraq given the threat of global terrorism.