thrax still epsted, was speak- slstcd once again that banned ton did nut take the
take the threat what the Iraqts were dout
Nicholas Watt,
Richard Nortorf-Taylor
and M :cllael White In Basra
Ton} Bldn's Iraq crisis deep-
Sara last night as ministers
ti ere accused of drstorttug the
findings of the chief' UN
weapons inspector to support
Britain's clamts about Saddaln
Hussern's weapons pro-
gtantute
Amid g :ow:ngange: anmng
senior intelligence officials
about Downing Street's use of
their work for political ends,
Hans Bltx's offiLe rejected
claims by muusters that lie
had provtded wteqmvocal VV-
id core of Itaq's,chearn cal and
biological weapons Pro-
to amme
aAs the prime minister be-
Lame the first wesler u leader
visit but sinre the end of
(?the
ihe war, Dr Bhx's spokesman
~ said thechrefweapons mspec-
1! tor had "never asserted" that
Laq deflnttely had weapons of
:nags destruction if, the run-
~ up to the conflict
Lwen Buchanan, who Said
~ Do Bhx had merely said there
was a `5ttong pi esuwnptton"
~thatbanned items such as an-
0
mg after thexrrned forces min-
ister, Adam Ingram, declared
flirt the UN had ptnv :ded
"danlmng" evldence of Illegal
Iraq : weapons
Mr B uchanan's rentalks "If
undearrione the credibility of
Downing Street, which faced
s evere presstne Ye5lerdavover
claims that ir doctored a
dossier on If aq's weapons of
mass (bl5trIn-Lion to
slr eogthen the case for war Air
unnamed Intelligence official
told the BBC that [he key drum
u : last September's dossier -
that trail could launch a chem-
Lcal or biological attichwithill
45 minutes of an cider -had
been inserted, on the inutruc-
t :ons of officials at No 10
Alaskan Campbell, the prinut
nuntster's director of eormtuo-
mcahous, who played a kcy
: ole fit drawing upthe dossier,
said yestrrday m Bas:,t that
the BBC was "saying we force(]
tire intelligence agencies to
put things m the doss :er that
we : e colt tie 'I list is wholly
imbue, there IS nothing in
tlrete lltat was nut the work of
ebe mtelltgence agenctes"
As the pnnte numster m-
weapons would be found,
Downing Street faced renewed
p :essure last night when the
hawklsh deputy 71S defence
secrelary appeared to belittle
the importance of such
weapons
Paul Wolfov~qtz told Vanity
Fair ma gaLtne that the deci-
sion to highlight weapons of
firms destr uctton as the main
rea_con for invading Iraq was
taken for"bureaucrat :c" rea-
sons, indicating that Washlng-
seriously
Atn:d the fmore, British In-
telligence suffices expressed
futv at Downing Street's be-
havrour They were deeply re-
luctant to allow Dnwnutg
Street to use their fit telligtance
assessments because they
feared it wmild he nmmpu-
lated for political euds .
Widespread unease m the
Intelligence comrtmMtv about
Downing 9h ect's use of their
tnfortnatton in the September
dossier was compounded by a
second report m February corn
taln mg secttons plagtansed by
Mr Campbell's staff John Scar-
left, chairman of Whitehall's
joint intelligence committee,
was reported to be furious at
what a senior Whitehall
.Source descnbcd yestel clay as
a"setons ettur"
Caveats about intelligence
supplied by MIG and GCHQ'
the government's eavesdrop-
ping centt e, we : c swept aside
by Mr Blarq egged on by Mr
Cum pbell, well-placed sources
sakl
A Whitehall source told the
Guardian yesterday "it may
tako sevctal months to decide
He added that somethmg h
to be fount, rfonly for pott4t
reasons,to suppo:t Mr Blan
Downing Street will al
struggle to shrug off the I
marks by Dr Box's office, Mi
tsters, who privately rubbish
:
the chief weapons inspect,
when he resisted the rush
war, have r eceutlvhaded a 17
page report lie produced I
March to prove that Iraq had
banned weapons pLogiminn
Dr Blrx's spokesman, wh
did not directly caito-Ise an
ntmtsters, said the report u
dtcated that there was
11
strong presumption" Iraq ch
not destroy illegal substanLe
such as anthrax But M
IIuchanan added "We I.=
theyhad anthrax We never al'
ca
serted that lhese tlays they ha :
them"
O
Ilowevc,r, Mr Buchauar
made clear that Dt Bltx's re
pott raised SMOLIS question :
about Iraq ")here are hurt
drerls, if not thousands, o
unanswered questions
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Inquiry, on Iraq
Blair must follow Thatcher's example
; net e three weeks aftei Butsh troops I Iraq m 2003 Ours is, tr. many ways, a
vomped ii),-o Port Stanley m June 1982, mo,e traasparent and sceplnca-society
NSaigai et Tnarcher told pm li ament that ~ -,bar) '_hat of 19"02 We also need parl ;a-
the government ltad decided to appoint :nentary inquiries - some are alreadv
.all mqu:rv .ntoBtitisl:policvtowardsthe under way-into particular aspects of
Fvi;landislandsmtheperiod leadmgup'theIraq cns's Nevertheless Franks ;sa
to tile tltgent.ne invasion There would I good model foran, autnor>",anve mquwrv
he v i d e tei ms of ; eferen ce, she told MPs, I into the government's han dlmg o-`Iraq
co^ermgallrelevant facto;s The eom-, ssawbole Itconsisted ofsemorpeop.e,
tnittee would have access to all relevant , but not exclusive:,, politicians It did not
pspe ;s mch'ding mull ;gencereports It I have anmbu9tgovernment ma7ornI:
wotdd consist of sixpnvyco ;nsellors, two ~ nad access to everything and everyone
of who n ".vei e Co3isen" at .ve e~-camnet , with somethmgto offer, mcludingmte!-
mm,sters two Labotu ei-nunistes, and , ligence sources Within its hrrzrnrs, whicn
two se ;uo : civil se_vaats, one of mhom, { were considerable, it gave a .-easonably
LordFranks,wouidchair themq;.;ry=ae independentac=ountofanation'sult :-
F;anks committee sat in ori,-ate am
mte ;v;e-"vedevervoneofstgs,ficance :-t Tudgmentonagroup ofcensensitive l
,lie sa,qa, firm Mrs Thatc .iet herself, I and
a' potertially damaging suspicions
alongv " ith three forr.ierprime ministers which needed to be autbontatvvely an -
a nd t,mdentttied "members of toe mtel- ' sweredby someone othes than -he primc
hgencccommwi ;tv'down toTamDalyell nnnsteroftneday
Hndmejoin t:altstsThecomm ;tteedidl_ Thecase forasimilar inquurinto Cne
its woilc ,n six months, publishing ~ traqwarhasgrownmuchmoreacutem
,epnitiniannarp1983 recent dayslchasdone sooecauseofthe
7wenn-mievea-son,a :;deven .fthere adrnusionbytheLSdefence secretary,
°" ei e co : rer.t,h no calls for an inquiry, Donald Rumsfeld, that there mav not
ther- v on[d aevettheless be a very !l:acebeen anyweapons o:mass destruc-,
stt un, case for doing m reiat;on to Iraq ~ tron m Iraq all along, and the remarks of ~
" .1 ;: t was cmie in re :aho n to :he Falk- ~ his aeputyFaalwolfov'itzthat the VF-4t
'~ .mds in 1982, taere weie questions ~ were hrghhgl:red for "ou.-eaucrauc rea- I
aboue wnethet British :ntelagencehad ~ sons" Butthe case is also urgent m the
done itslobover tl-;eFalldzndsThere -eare light ofclatmsbltheBBC,quonngmte'--I
s;milac issues over Iraq todav. in 1982, I hgence sources, 'hat the governments
thc-e were qustons about whethcr the ~ September 2002 "dossier" or- .he Iraq ;
Foieign Office had handled the dispute ~ theat had been doctored by Downing I
v.ellorLadl} especrallydn--irgcritical ~Street to make ;t more scary This i
diplor,acA at the United Nations The dossier's truthfulness has already been
camennl,hesovetIraq 6ndthere were challenged over itscla :msofaN:ger-Iraq
questions 21 ; ears ago about `,he role of nscleat eonnectmn Bt .t it ; fla; ;ns he at
thepline nanlater asthed:sp.iteg;ew theheartofthegovernme~t'sen :u~eItaq
°_r~acal Trueo-rerlrar,agam All :hese ;s- poltc.~,'oothcomesncandiaterr.at;onal
soear" e;ec%sm ;ledmtae :eportFiants They underlie dozens a-, statements bv
cve,i looked atl0assert ;o~-isabout :he TonyB.atr,hisministers ancoffic;als,tn
FalUardccus ;sthat l:adDeenw-idelyd;s- every forurnfromtheUnrtedNat ;onsto
cussed :r the press - assertions like the the House of Commons If tha: dosster
clatmthatmmis?ershadsecretlytold_1r- wasdoctoredorifministers knew that
qc ntin a.that Bt .tam was p-regared to g~=,e I it was false, or knew ;t was not believed '
ap ii ; _ ;slands agamst the v.vs ;es of th=_ i tg' .he US :.mnm ;strat;on, then Mr B.a;r
~~lar.lcrs o. that ihc government ,u I and his team have intsled parLamen_
Buenos Aires inade abu,k pr'rchase m and people r.l :ke If ever there we ;=_ a
Lonoon ol detailed maps and charts of ~ case notiust for a full statementtc pa :-
tl~ePalldzndsshoit]yoefnrrrhemvaston ihamentbutforafullandmdep=_ndent
,l~ator~ neveuepeats itself There are e.var.nnator. of tae truth Vast ?,us s it I
mr, :;? pol ;,ical, leqal and log ;rt;cal dtf- ~I The moment Mr B :vir gets back from his
:me :,^ ;sbctween Britain's decisron to go I trave1s, we need both Ins esplananou I
towarivitbAigentmam19?'2andwitn and hrsannouncementofanmqn- :-y I

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