Former UK Spy Chief Decries "War on Terror"
Submitted on September 2, 2011
By Richard Norton-Taylor - Friday 2 September 2011
Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5, delivered a withering attack on the invasion of Iraq, decried the term "war on terror", and held out the prospect of talks with al-Qaida...[S]he also said the 9/11 attacks were "a crime, not an act of war". "So I never felt it helpful to refer to a war on terror".
