*Ø* Blogmanac | Australia was told: war will fuel terror

"Intelligence given to Australia before the Iraq War warned that the terrorist threat would increase if military action was launched against Saddam Hussein, contradicting repeated assertions by the Prime Minister.

"The revelation – disclosed after a British parliamentary committee released details of a top-secret assessment by British intelligence chiefs – raises new questions about whether the public was deliberately misled in the lead-up to the conflict.

"Handed to the Blair Government on February 10, six weeks before the war started, the assessment by the high-level Joint Intelligence Committee debunked several of the key arguments used by the "coalition of the willing" to justify going to war against Iraq ..."

This was the Page 1 headline story of the Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday, September 13, 2003