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Blix Believed Iraq Dossier Was 'Understated'
By Gavin Cordon, Whitehall Editor, PA News
Tue 12 Oct 2004

Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix believed the Government's
controversial Iraq weapons dossier actually understated the case
against Saddam Hussein, according to documents released today by the
Foreign Office

The papers released by the FO show that British officials at the
United Nations in New York showed a draft of the dossier to Dr Blix in
September 2002, two weeks before the final version was published.

A note from one official, Adam Bye, said that Dr Blix had liked the
section on chemical, biological and nuclear weapons as he believed
that it did not exaggerate the facts.

According to the note, Dr Blix said that the dossier even risked
understating Iraq's ability to produce weapons of mass destruction –
particularly the lethal anthrax virus.

He also described the claim that even if Iraq was able to acquire
fissile material from abroad, it would still take at least two years
to build a working nuclear bomb as "modest".

Since war, Dr Blix has strongly criticised the case made for war by
Britain and the United States, based on Saddam Hussein's supposed
possession of illegal WMD.

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