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( People didn't think that al-Qaida and Iran would play the role that they did. It was really the external elements of al-Qaida and Iran that really caused this mission very nearly to fail.|

By The Newsroom

Published 29th Jan 2010, 17:00 BST

Updated 29th Jan 2010, 19:02 BST

{ I don’t think I refused a request for money or for equipment at any point in the time that I was Prime Minister .|

{ I took the view very strongly then – and do now – that it was right for us to be with America, since we believed in this too.|

{ What I said in the foreword was that I believed it was beyond doubt. I did believe it and I did believe that it was beyond doubt.|

{ Now, I think that it is at least arguable that he was a threat, that had we taken that decision to leave him there, with an oil price not 25 dollars but 100 dollars a barrel, he would have had the intent, he would have had the financial means, and we would have lost our nerve.|

{ The decision I took was... if there was any possibility that he could develop weapons of mass destruction we should stop him.