LONDON, Aug. 28 — The inquiry into the death of a top weapons’ expert has taken Britain by storm. Along with the throng of journalists, more than 100 members of the public lined up in the London fog, many camping-out overnight, to see Prime Minister Tony Blair take the stand on Thursday. The courtroom face-off between Blair’s government and the British Broadcasting Corp. has made headlines for weeks, been reconstructed on television daily, and will soon be staged in a north London theater.
“WARGATE,” as Britons have nicknamed the inquiry, has become a soap opera affair, involving top officials, secret documents, and an apparent suicide.
Weapons’ expert Dr. David Kelly was found in the woods with a slashed wrist near his Oxfordshire home last month after being named as the source behind a BBC reporter’s claim that the government “sexed up” its dossier on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.
The inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death got under way nearly three weeks ago. But, despite a play-by-play commentary from every newspaper, radio, and television station in the country, the senior judge conducting the inquiry, Lord Brian Hutton, has barred television cameras from the courtroom.
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