Prodi says Iraq war increased terror threat

Romano Prodi has said that the war in Iraq increased the threat of terror and that he hopes the attacks on Madrid will lead EU states to forge a common foreign policy and common home policy to combat terrorism.

In an interview with Maltamedia, the commission president said: "A year has passed since Iraq was attacked. Seeing what happened in Turkey, Russia and now in Spain, shows me that this war did not decrease the threat of terror, but it has increased it".

Although the US-led w...