From: Ad 

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=19675

"Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, the former chairman of Britain's Joint
Intelligence Committee, told a conference on terrorism in Brussels that the
West's record in the fight against terror was "not very good."

"I was very much in favour of intervention in Iraq. But that had a
very negative impact," she said."

"Iraq "has been turned into a training ground for terrorists, not
just a recruitment office," Neville-Jones continued.

The same thing is happening in Afghanistan with the appearance there of
suicide attacks, the former foreign affairs adviser to ex-prime minister
John Major said.

"We have had successes in counter terrorism, but not in diminishing
it," she added.

Since the intervention in May 2003 of the US-led coalition "there have
been around seven times the number of attacks throughout the world than
between September 2001 (9/11) and the same date," she asserted.

Most of those attacks have taken place in Iraq, but a quarter of them
occurred in Afghanistan, and the rest in Europe and the Middle East, she
added.

One of the long-term effects of the events in Iraq is that the terrorists,
facing increasingly well-equipped troops, are themselves upgrading, she
said."

Possibly "Bring it on" was a mite stupid.

Adam

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