Blair Says “Militants” Flooding Iraq.

“Terrorists, literally, from every extremist group around the Middle East are pouring into Iraq,” Blair told parliament.

“They know that if Iraq does become a stable, democratic and prosperous country…it deals a tremendous blow to the propaganda of those extremists and fanatics who would say that the purpose of any conflict in Iraq was to seize the oil or subjugate the Iraqi people.

”That is why they are doing it. They know what is at stake here. I just hope we do as well.”

Blair did not say where in the Middle East the attackers were coming from nor suggest their affiliations. Nor was he specific about any links they might have had to Tuesday’s attacks.