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CIA Warned Blair Over Iraq Intelligence; Warning Ignored

HeadlineJul 31, 2003

The British Foreign Office has admitted that the CIA warned the Blair government that it could not back up the claim that Iraqi forces could deploy chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes or that Iraq purchased uranium from Niger.

The Blair administration went ahead anyway announcing these claims in its controversial September Iraq dossier as part of the government two main reasons to go forward with an invasion of Iraq.

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