WMD

Blair worse than Bush-Cheney on Iraq WMD claims

SocraticGadfly (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

We "just" believed a mentally ill physicist. The British apparently actually believed an Iraqi taxi driver , among others, about WMD. Yoikes. If that was not bad enough, at other times, Prime Minister Tony Blair was just making up Dick Cheney-type bullshit about Iraq. There is no god and I am his prophet.

Blair told Saddam had no WMD

The Age (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago

The pivotal intelligence advice that suggested Saddam Hussein possessed weapons that could be deployed within 45 minutes did not refer to ballistic missiles.

Blair told of doubts about Iraq's WMD

New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

LONDON - Tony Blair was aware of last-minute intelligence revealing that Saddam Hussein had probably dismantled his chemical and biological weaponry, a key adviser has said.Sir John Scarlett, who was the head of the Joint Intelligence...

• Blair 'was told Iraq had disarmed - but still went to war' - The Independent
• How the Crock of Shit Gets to Your Breakfast Table - A Tiny Revolution
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Iraq-WMD Claim Came from ... a Cab Driver?

Alternet (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago

News in the UK: Iraqi cab driver was source of an infamous claim made by Prime Minister Tony Blair that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

WMD proliferation the focus of annual NATO conference

Outdoor and Andinia News (Free subscription) | yesterday

More than 100 senior officials representing countries from five continents as well as a number of international organizations and academic institutions will meet on 10 and 11 December in Warsaw, Poland, for the annual NATO Conference on Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation.

UK spy chief tackled on Iraq WMD

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Sir John Scarlett is being questioned about Iraq intelligence after claims a taxi driver was the 45-minute claim's source.

Spy chief facing WMD questioning

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Sir John Scarlett is being questioned about Iraq intelligence after claims a taxi driver was the 45-minute claim's source.

WMD claim 'came from cab driver'

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Intelligence that Saddam Hussein could attack UK targets within 45 minutes came from a taxi driver in Iraq, an MP has claimed.

• The new 45-minute claim – it's all about timing | Michael White - The Guardian
• Claim that Saddam Hussein could launch WMD within 45 minutes 'came from an Iraqi taxi driver' - The Guardian

Iraq WMD claims not manipulated: ex-U.K. spy chief

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday

British intelligence officials did not intend to mislead anyone by releasing documents in 2002 claiming Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, Britain's former spy chief said Tuesday.

• Ex-spy chief admits regret over 45 minutes claim - The Guardian
• Iraqi cab driver was source for Iraq WMD claim, British MP says - Raw Story
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Iraq Inquiry: 45 minute WMD claim was 'lost in translation' says Sir John Scarlett

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday

Tony Blair claimed Saddam Hussein could deploy WMDs at 45 minutes' notice because intelligence was "lost in translation".

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Iraqi Taxi Driver Source of Information on WMD Threat

Liberal Values (Free subscription) | yesterday

Remember the warnings that we had to stop Saddam because he could could unleash weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes? It now looks like the source of this discredited threat was an Iraqi taxi driver. They were so desperate to make a case for going to war that they tried to run with any [...]

• p2pnet World Headlines: Dec 8, 2009 - p2pnet

Was an Iraqi Cabbie the Source of the 'Dodgy Dossier' on Saddam's WMD?

Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | yesterday

Inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot said the Daily Mail's revelation yesterday that the cabbie may have been the source of claims that Saddam Hussein could fire chemical weapons at British targets in 45 minutes was 'relevant to' his work. But he refused to quiz Sir John Scarlett about the claims, made in a report by Tory MP Adam Holloway, on grounds of national security. Instead the Chilcot Inquiry will...

• The new 45-minute claim – it's all about timing | Michael White - The Guardian
• Iraqi cab driver was source for Iraq WMD claim, British MP says - Raw Story

Iraqi cab driver was source for Iraq WMD claim, British MP says

Nasir Khan blog (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago

By John Byrne , The Raw Story, Dec 8, 2009 A British parliamentarian claimed in a report published Tuesday that an Iraqi cab driver was the source of an infamous claim made by Prime Minister Tony Blair that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The member of Parliament, a member of the conservative British Tory Party, claims that he was told by a British intelligence official that the claim...

British dossier on Iraq's WMD was based on a gossiping taxi driver's information

Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday

The British government's 2002 dossier claiming that Saddam Hussain could target UK with chemical missiles on 45 minute's notice was based upon information provided by a gossiping taxi driver who