Now Us Is Accused of 'Sexing Up' the Threat of Saddam's Weapons

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TONY BLAIR suffered a fresh and heavy blow over Iraq today with authoritative charges that the US government "sexed up" the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.

The claim, closely matching the accusation levelled against the British government, came after a detailed six-month investigation by a respected Washington thinktank. In a report to be published today, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace concludes that US officials "systematically misrepresented" the threat from Iraqi chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in the run-up to war.

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Now Us Is Accused of 'Sexing Up' the Threat of Saddam's Weapons

It says the public was misled by intelligence assessments pr...

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