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[Recent Blogs] The meter's running for Tony Blair | Al Jazeera Blogs: A taxi driver, peddling fares along Iraq's border with Jordan, was the one who told British intelligence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction capable of hitting Britain in less than an hour's flying time from Baghdad.

[Iraq Inquiry Digest] One Question for John Scarlett » Iraq Inquiry Digest: Sir John Scarlett, former head of MI6 and before that the chairman of the joint intelligence committee (JIC), appears before the Iraq Inquiry at 2pm this afternoon for just an hour and a half. For the man who took the fall for the dodgy intelligence on which the war was supposedly based - not to mention Tony Blair’s discredited Iraq dossier - it isn’t very long.

[Argue With Everyone Political Forums] HOW THE IRAKI WAR STARTED.....: A taxi driver, peddling fares along Iraq's border with Jordan, was the one who told British intelligence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction capable of hitting Britain in less than an hour's flying time from Baghdad.

[Spiked] We need honest debate, not a bureaucratic inquiry | spiked: As the Guardian’s Simon Jenkins described it: ‘For two weeks, the investigation into the alleged failures of the 2003 invasion of Iraq has dealt with processes and procedures.’ Whitehall mandarin after army bureaucrat has shuffled in, and shuffled out again, puffing a few sweet qualifications into the inquiry air: ‘I might have said that’;

[intelNews.org] Former MI6 head testifies in UK Iraq War commission « intelNews.org: As part of the official inquiry into Britain's entry in the Iraq War, Sir John testified yesterday about the controversial report, known as 'the dodgy dossier', which has been criticized as a monumental intelligence failure that helped drag the .But he argued that British Prime Minister Tony Blair's argument, included in the report, that Iraq's chemical weapons posed a threat to the UK that was “beyond doubt”, was simply a technical error (“it should have read chemical .

[standard.co.uk - Paul Waugh] Paul Waugh | Blogs | Evening Standard: But he fleshed out what they included "serious humanitarian issues", "serious disorder", "serious revenge attacks against the [new] regime". The assessments made clear that it "can't be taken for granted that a post-Saddam administration would automatically have popular support".

[Kings of War] Intelligence Failure and Iraq - 'I had this geezer in the back of ...: It also strikes me that problems of this sort (boss-think and group-think) might be inherent to the structure of the UK Intelligence Machinery and perhaps UK political culture generally. The culture of official secrecy around internal Government deliberations, compounded by the Government’s desire for the Intelligence Machinery to speak in one voice via JIC, represents a stark difference from the American model.

[Raw Story] Iraqi cab driver was source for Iraq WMD claim, British MP says ...: The member of Parliament, a member of the conservative British Tory Party, claims that he was told by a British intelligence official that the claim actually came from an Iraqi taxi driver, and that it was considered highly unreliable but was tacitly backed by Blair's government in public statements anyway.

[Welcome the Light] MP's Report Claims 'Intelligence” on Saddams WMDs Came From Back ...: In his report, The Failure of British Political and Military Leadership in Iraq, Mr Holloway writes: ‘Under pressure from Downing Street to find anything to back up the WMD case, SIS were squeezing their agents in Iraq for anything at all.

[standard.co.uk - Paul Waugh] Paul Waugh | Blogs | Evening Standard: In Blair's defence, at no point in the dossier did he state that British bases were '45 MINUTES FROM DOOM', to quote a famous headline. This was the media simply eliding two separate bits of the dossier - that the Iraqi army could deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes of an order from Saddam AND that the Iraqis were developing missiles that could reach British bases in Cyprus.

[Eideard] Blair omits that secret WMD info came from a nosey taxi driver ...: The 45-minute claim was a key feature of the dossier about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction that was released by Tony Blair in September 2002. Blair published the information to bolster public support for war.

[Newsweek Blogs] Was Taxi Driver Source for Key Saddam WMD Claim? - Declassified ...: The claim raises new questions about the origins of pre-Iraq war intelligence at a sensitive time for the British government. An official United Kingdom tribunal is currently examining how and why former Prime Minister Tony Blair's .

[Centurean2's Weblog] Iraq War LIARS_Iraq Inquiry bombshell: Secret letter to reveal new ...: What a pity Lord Goldsmith had to wait such a long time for the truth to be heard, this was long suspected but now there is proof, with this new evidence the time has come to take Blair to the Haig to answer for his crimes. The UN failed the world in 2002 in stoping this man and his cronies but should not fail this time, they must act now to restore their credibility.

[Beautiful Horizons] Beautiful Horizons: Taxi Driver: The 45-minute claim was a key feature of the dossier about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction that was released by Tony Blair in September 2002. Blair published the information to bolster public support for war.

[Republic Broadcasting Network] Republic Broadcasting Network » Blog Archive » Blair knew Iraq had ...: Sir William Ehrman, the director of international security at the UK’s Foreign Office from 2000 to 2002, told the British government’s inquiry into the Iraq invasion that “on March 10 we got a report saying that the chemical weapons might have remained disassembled and that Saddam hadn’t yet ordered their re-assembly and he might lack warheads capable of effective dispersal of agents.”

[statism watch] statism watch » Blog Archive » Blair lied and lied again ...: In his foreword, Mr Blair wrote: ‘What I believe the assessed intelligence has established beyond doubt is that Saddam has continued to produce chemical and biological weapons, that he continues in his efforts to develop nuclear weapons, and that he has been able to extend the range of his ballistic missile programme.’

[Dissident Voice] Dissident Voice : The Unbearable Lightness of Being Tony Blair: These qualities already evident during Blair’s first appearance as a principled liberal interventionist during the NATO bombing of Serbia in March 1999 - a war that Blair described in typically Manichean style as ”˜a battle between good and evil, between civilisation and barbarism.’ In his famous ”˜doctrine of international community’ speech delivered in Chicago in April 1999 he described the NATO campaign as a the product of a new concept of ”˜international community’ in which states no longer pursued the selfish national interests of the past but were ”˜guided by a more subtle blend of mutual self-interest and moral purpose in defending the values we cherish’. These principles ignored the fact that the war had been launched by NATO in order to bypass the United Nations that represented the ”˜international community.’ When Blair evoked ”˜the tear stained faces of the hundreds of thousands of refugees streaming across the border’ from Kosovo as a justification for intervention, he did not mention that this exodus had taken place after the war had begun, when the Serbian president Slobodan Milosovic with characteristic ruthlessness ordered the mass expulsion of 800,000 Kosovars in retaliation for the NATO bombings.

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