BBC: Blix doubts on Iraq intelligence

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Blix doubts on Iraq intelligence

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Hans Blix says the UK and US should reveal any evidence of WMD
Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has said Britain and the US dramatised intelligence information to bolster the argument for the Iraq war.

He told the BBC those who drafted the UK's Iraqi arms dossier acted like salesmen trying to "exaggerate the importance" of their wares.


Mr Blix said British and American intelligence officials had placed too much weight on what Iraqi defectors told them. He also blamed "spin" which both governments put on the intelligence for the mistake.

"It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it," he said.

He challenged the UK and US to produce the evidence of weapons programmes they claim to have uncovered.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3469821.stm


Hans Blix says the UK and US should reveal any evidence of WMD

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

1. Transcript of interview:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/3470051.stm

(& something to look forward to!:

"Blix: I have just finished a book that will come out in March and in which I report my experience of it and my views on it.")

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2. I wonder if they are locked up somewhere with AWOL's military record!

Will they all "magically appear" at the same time?

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3. Don't forget Osama......

He too will be paraded out right before elections.

[Laughing Mirror]

4. yes, make sure you get this message out to friends

get the buzz going on this so everybody will be prepared, so that once the grand spectacle occurs everybody will already have been expecting it, and nobody will give a good goddam.

Spread the message: Osama has already been caught and is waiting in the wings for his big coming out party, sometime during the Republican convention/9-11 anniversary in New York.

I just wonder how they're going to stage it? Will somebody with a comb be raking through the famous greying beard looking for cave lice?