LONDON (AP) — Britain’s spies were wrong-footed by the spread of unrest during the Arab Spring and failed to predict the dramatic uprisings that swept the region, Parliament’s intelligence and security committee said Thursday.

The panel of nine lawmakers, which acts as the country’s intelligence watchdog, said in its annual report that the crisis had exposed Britain’s decision to scale back intelligence assets in much of the Middle East.

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