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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 08:33 AM
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Kelly believed Iraq had few weapons
LONDON (Reuters) - Leading weapons expert David Kelly believed Iraq posed only a minimal military threat and accused the government of overplaying the risk to justify war, a BBC reporter has told an inquiry into his suicide.

Kelly slashed his wrist last month after being named as the source for a BBC report that a government dossier on Iraq's weapons was "sexed up" at the behest of Prime Minister Tony Blair's communications chief, Alastair Campbell.

Andrew Gilligan, the BBC defence correspondent whose May 29 report has plunged Blair's government into crisis, told the judicial inquiry Kelly told him most British intelligence experts were unhappy with the weapons dossier.

"(Saddam Hussein's weapons) programme was small. He couldn't have killed very many people even if everything had gone right for him," said Gilligan, reading notes from his interview with Kelly.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/24by7panews/page.cfm?objectid=13284408&method=full&siteid=50143

Kelly was assassinated by Bush or Blair. He had nothing to fear, nothing to hide, didn't do anything wrong-illegal just like our Bush/Lay/Enron assassination Clifford Baxter.

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NewYorkerfromMass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:24 AM
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1. It's a dark time dArKeR
I'd hate for it to get darker. :-(
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ZenLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:59 AM
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