and britain wanted to attack iraq with the support of a u.n. resolution when the u.s. struggled to get support the country s national security agency asked british intelligence to try and win over 6 uncommitted nations on the security council and h a h e c h q katherine gun received the directive but didn t agree eventually she had it sent to britain s observer newspaper which then revealed the plan on march 4th 2003 . that caused the scandal in britain and beyond. simply understand i m not going to comment on the operations of our security services but i do say this we act in accordance with the mystic and international law and we act in the best interests of this country and all security services are a vital part of the protection of this country a couple of weeks later the americans british and other coalition forces then decided to attack iraq without the backing of