New doubts over pre-war intelligence

Key points
• New doubts emerge over WMD claims
• Claims raise new doubts over weapons assertions
• Head of CIA said to have criticised WMD assertions

Key quote
"But it is outlandish that we, an exile organisation, which was criticised and vilified by the CIA throughout the past decade, would provide information, and the US officials would take it as credible and go to war on its basis. That is ridiculous" - Ahmad Chalabi, of Iraqi Governing Council

Story in full FRESH doubts were cast on the quality of Britain’s pre-war intelligence on Iraqi arms last night, as it emerged that United States authorities are urgently seeking two former MI6 informants whose evidence has now "fallen apart".

US agents have been painstakingly reviewing the intelligence that led Western leaders including Tony Blair and the US president George Bush to the conclusion that Saddam Hussein was pursuing an illicit chemical and biological weapons programmes.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the CIA has established that information from two "supposedly senior" Iraqis who spied for MI6 had "fallen apart".

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