This comes as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has defended his position to push Britain into the Iraq War, claiming the world would be in an even worse position without the invasion of Iraq that ousted Saddam Hussein. This comes after the release of the long-awaited Chilcot report, which blames Tony Blair for deliberately exaggerating the threat posed by Saddam Hussein in the lead-up to the Iraq War. The report also revealed Blair had been warned multiple times by Britain’s Joint Intelligence Committee that the invasion of Iraq would increase the threat of terrorism by al-Qaeda and other militant groups.