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Ex-MI5 spy chief: No link between Iraq and 9/11 (AP)

FILE -  This is a Nov. 8, 2004 file photo of  former head of Britain's domestic spy agency MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller.  Manningham-Buller was testifying Tuesday July 20, 2010 before Britain's inquiry into the conflict as documents were released that showed MI5 believed Saddam Hussein had a limited ability to mount terrorist attacks in Britain before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/David Jones/PA, File) **  UNITED KINGDOM OUT   **AP - The war in Iraq led to a loss of focus on the threat from al-Qaida, emboldened the group’s leader Osama bin Laden, and helped to breed a generation of homegrown terrorists, Britain’s former domestic spy chief told an inquiry Tuesday.


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