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"People across the world overwhelmingly believe the war in Iraq has increased
the likelihood of terrorist attacks worldwide, a poll for the BBC reveals"


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70% of Londoners think the Iraq war contributed to recent terror attacks in London.. (Guardian UK, 10/4/05)
The Iraq war helped Al-Qaeda recruitment. (International Institute for Strategic Studies, 10/19/04)

Republican Senator Chuck Hagel (NE):  Iraq war has hurt the U.S. war on terror. (6/30/04)
The US-led war on terror has made the world more dangerous... and has prompted the most sustained erosion of human rights and international law in 50 years(Amnesty International, 5/27/04)
Pakistan President Musharraf: 'Iraq war was a mistake; world is more dangerous' (CNN, Dec. '04)
"I cannot say the world is safer today than it was two, three years ago."  (Kofi Annan, 7/22/04)
Hans Blix: War in Iraq has stimulated terrorism around the globe.  (10/14/04)

Sources:
1.  Pat Buchanan: "Terrorism is the price of empire"  -  Real Time with Bill Maher 9/3/04
2.  The American people are safer today because of the Iraq war - Pres. Bush 7/12/04
3.  The Pentagon has admitted that the war on terror... - Sunday Herald 12/5/04
4.  More terrorist attacks in 2004... - U.S. State Dept. 4/15/05

5.  128,000 Iraqis have been killed - of which 55% were women and children... - UPI 7/12/05
6.  U.S. military kills 17 innocent Afghan civilians - BBC 7/4/05
7. "Why do Americans think..." - Paul Roberts 7/8/2005
8. MI5 Analysts Admit Link Between Iraq War and Bombings - Times UK 7/28/05
9. Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri: "Blair's policies brought you destruction in .. London" - Reuters 8/4/05



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