National Intelligence Estimate: Iraq War Has Exacerbated Terrorism
The government’s own intelligence assessment has come to the conclusion to which The American Conservative and other informed observers have been pointing for a few years now. From the NY Times:
Explore posts in the same categories: WarAn opening section of the report, “Indicators of the Spread of the Global Jihadist Movement,” cites the Iraq war as a reason for the diffusion of jihad ideology.
The report “says that the Iraq war has made the overall terrorism problem worse,” said one American intelligence official.
September 27, 2006 at 11:37 am
There is a great article summarising the current predicament here called “Losing A War, Winning A Police State” by Nat Parry that uses the NIE document as a jump off point. Over on Slate there is in their “Hot Documents” department, an item on the NIE report called “Can Bush Read?”