UK citizens more a threat than Saddam: spy chief

Iraq posed little threat to Britain just before the 2003 war - but the danger of extremist attacks surged following the conflict, the ex-head of domestic security service MI5 told an inquiry on Tuesday.

Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, chief of the intelligence agency from 2002 to 2007, also dismissed any connection between Iraq and the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

She was giving evidence at Britain's public inquiry into the Iraq war, which has heard from figures including former prime minister Tony Blair, who was in power when the country joined the US under then US President George W Bush in the war.

Manningham-Buller said that in 2002, MI5 had advised Blair's government that the "direct threat" from Iraq was "low".

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UK citizens more a threat than Saddam: spy chief

UK citizens more a threat than Saddam: spy chief

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