Is it not also the case that there was a plot against the World Trade Centre in the 1990s, that the bombing of USS Cole was in 1998 and that al-Qaeda carried out plots and activities of a similar kind well before the intervention in Iraq?
Iraq: Coalition Against ISIL
Proceeding contribution from
Mike Gapes
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Friday, 26 September 2014.
It occurred during Debate on Iraq: Coalition Against ISIL.
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2014-15
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