Date 07/07/2016 - News People
Michael Bay Getty The newly published Iraq War Report claims British intelligence may have ripped off the plot of the action thriller to help justify military intervention. Want someone to blame for the Iraq War? Blame Michael Bay. According to the Chilcot report, the exhaustive investigation into Britain's role in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, British intelligence used the plot of Bay's film The Rock to help make its case for war. According to the report, published on Wednesday, the British secret service MI6 took elements of the 1996 action thriller which became part of the "valuable intelligence" they presented arguing for military intervention to topple Iraq leader Saddam Hussein.