Key Phrase Was Dropped from UK Iraq Dossier

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Key Phrase Was Dropped from UK Iraq Dossier
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By Katherine Baldwin and Janet McBride

LONDON (Reuters) - The British intelligence chief responsible for a pre-war dossier on Iraq (news - web sites)'s weapons dropped a key sentence from it days before publication after prompting from Downing Street, an inquiry heard on Tuesday.

He did it at the suggestion of Jonathan Powell, chief of staff to Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites), the inquiry heard.

The offending sentence stated that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) was prepared to use chemical and biological weapons "if he believes his regime is under threat.""

Powell argued that phrase suggested Iraq was only a threat if attacked.

The revelation that Powell ordered the sentence to be omitted raises fresh doubts over the intervention of Blair's office in the compilation of the September dossier.

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1. bit of a dupe really

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=128776

and I think there is another one on the 2nd of 3rd page.

Mind you,it is a very important story IMHO.