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Deal sought with al-Qaeda
UK and US intelligence are examining ways of talking to al-Qaeda, with a view to an eventual peace settlement, the former head of MI5 has said.But Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, who ran the security service until 2007, said negotiations were a way off.She was speaking in London on Thursday, as she delivered the first of her BBC Reith lectures on the them…
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Pre-war Iraq 'was no threat to UK'
Iraq posed no threat to the UK when then prime minister Tony Blair took Britain to war there, former MI5 boss Dame Eliza Manningham Buller has said. The one-time security service boss has spoken out about the conflict previously, revealing the reservations she had about it at the time.But in a new interview, she told the Radio Times: "Iraq did not p…
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