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Jul 13

Iraq war inquiry: Blair government ‘massaged’ Saddam Hussein WMD threat

by Steve

Richard Norton-Taylor

Carne Ross Carne Ross said the government ‘intentionally and substantially’ exaggerated the threat from Saddam. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian

Tony Blair‘s government “intentionally and substantially” exaggerated assessments of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction culminating in highly misleading statements about the threat that amounted to lies, the inquiry into the war in Iraq was told today

Carne Ross, a British diplomat to the UN who was responsible for Iraq in the runup to the invasion, said intelligence was “massaged” into “more robust and terrifying” statements about Saddam’s supposed WMD.

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