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Apologies for the long rant here, but indulge me if you will. This may have been reported on here before, but I haven't seen it so am posting. It relates to the reasons for invading Iraq when Saddam was running the country, and the infamous "Weapons of mass destruction" that he supposedly possessed. At the time, over here in the UK, Tony Blair's government was trying to drum up support for a foreign incursion that was receiving little domestic support. Suddenly a report came out that not only did Saddam have these weapons, but that they could be deployed against British targets (military bases in Cyprus as it turned out) within 45 minutes. Not long afterwards BBC radio reported a story from an unnamed source saying that this was a load of rubbish, the spin doctors had "sexed it up" and there was no valid reason to invade Iraq. This caused a huge legal argument between the BBC and the government which the government won. It subsequently turned out that the unnamed source was a civil servant named David Kelly who was a weapons inspector and probably knew a lot more than anyone else. The spin doctors set about him, he was called into a parliamentary commitee and well, the next thing he was found dead, apparently having commited suicide. And that's where this story begins really, because nobody believes that he actually commited suicide, despite a whitewash enquiry. Link below.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uest-death-weapons-expert-prove-murdered.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uest-death-weapons-expert-prove-murdered.html