The head of Britain's national security intelligence agency at the time of the Iraq war, Eliza Manningham-Buller, says she did not see Saddam Hussein as a threat.

Giving evidence to the official inquiry into Britain's role in the conflict, Baroness Manningham-Buller said MI5 had regarded the threat from Iraq as low.

"We did think Saddam Hussein might resort to terrorism in the theatre if he thought his regime was toppled ... but we did not believe he had the capability to do anything much in the UK. That turned out to be the right judgement," she said.

Baroness Manningham-Buller says Britain's involvement in Iraq has radicalised a whole generation of young Muslims who saw the invasion as an attack on Islam.

- BBC