Iraq war may have made terror threat worse:

“One of the world’s leading terrorism experts Wednesday told the panel investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that the U.S. invasion of Iraq may have worsened the threat of terrorism.

Prof. Rohan Gunaratna, giving evidence at a public hearing of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also criticized the failures of intelligence and policy he said had turned Afghanistan into a ‘terrorist Disneyland,’ and allowed al-Qaida and other terror groups ‘a free reign.’

Asked by panel member Max Cleland, the war-wounded Vietnam veteran and former Democratic Georgia senator, to comment on the impact of the U.S. military campaign in Iraq, Gunaratna said that deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein — on the run with nothing to lose but with money and possible biological or chemical weapons — might be a bigger threat now than before.” UPI