Blix: UK 45 minutes to deploy was error

[absolutezero]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=CDYN4LM0FIG2YCRBAE0CFEY?type=worldNews&storyID=3079507

The old thread was locked...didn't use the title, sorry, forgot, it's late in NJ

[Judi Lynn]

1. Love his observation

First, here's your link:
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(snip) U.N. inspectors left Iraq in March as American and British forces prepared to invade. Calls for their reinstatement have been denied, with the U.S. occupation authorities preferring instead to set up their own body, the Iraq Survey Group.

While Blix did not doubt the competence of the British and American experts, he said international inspectors from the U.N. would bring "greater credibility." (snip/)

Somewhat!

Thanks, absolutezero.

[dArKeR]

2. Blix slams Blair's intelligence

Retired UN weapons inspector Hans Blix has accused British Prime Minister Tony Blair of wrongly interpreting intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and making a "fundamental mistake" in saying they could be deployed within 45 minutes.

In a second dossier, an old academic thesis was downloaded from the Internet, spiced up and published as a substantial part of ostensibly new intelligence without attribution. The government has admitted this was a serious error.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1386899,00.html