(BBC) Tony Blair was warned there could be a UK terrorist attack “even more appalling” than 9/11, declassified government documents have revealed.
Days after the 2001 US attacks, the then-prime minister was told of the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.
In the letter, ex-defence minister Sir John Stanley said he was almost certain terrorists would get a “dirty” bomb.
The papers also reveal how Baroness Thatcher wrote to Mr Blair to praise his “resolve” following the attacks.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the four attacks on the US on 11 September 2001. Hijackers had crashed two airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, and a third hit the Pentagon, the headquarters of the US Department of Defense.
