Rumsfeld: 'London attacks not Iraq retaliation'

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday rejected as “nonsense” the notion that recent terrorist attacks in London were retaliation for the US-led war in Iraq.

“Some people seem confused about the motivations and intentions of terrorists and about our coalition’s defence of the still young democracies in Afghanistan and Iraq,” Rumsfeld said in a speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.