The Iraq war has acted as a "recruiting sergeant" for extremists, a Ministry of Defence (MoD) report has said.
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The report said: "The war in Iraq...has acted as a recruiting sergeant for extremists across the Muslim world.

"Iraq has served to radicalise an already disillusioned youth and al-Qaeda has given them the will, intent, purpose and ideology to act."
- BBC

More on Wednesday's Newsnight apparently.

This report isn't in line with Blair's "very, very strongly held views" though so it can be dismissed as irrelevant...

There is no spoon.

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