Inquiry Told 45-Minute Wmd Claim From Secret Service Was 'Too Thin'

Evening Standard - London › July 09, 2004

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INTELLIGENCE behind the Government's "45-minute" claim on Iraq's WMD readiness was so "thin" it was impossible to say what it related to, Lord Butler's inquiry into the affair has been told.

The rebel Iraqi general who passed the claim to MI6 knew only the time frame - and not whether it related to battlefield or longrange weapons. So his allegation, the investigation is set to conclude, should have been looked at much more rigorously.

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Inquiry Told 45-Minute Wmd Claim From Secret Service Was 'Too Thin'

Although MI6's original "CX" intelligence report was potentially valuable, it was so vague that it should have been carefully qualified in the Downing Street...

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