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(回答先: 英政府、ＢＢＣへの圧力強める イラク兵器巡る報道 投稿者 クエスチョン 日時 2003 年 7 月 11 日 09:34:18)
大量破壊兵器情報操作疑惑で窮地に立つイギリス・ブレア。【アルジャジーラ.infoの漫画です。】
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,994000,00.html
08.07.03: Blair's response to Iraq dossier inquiry
イラク関連書類（ＷＭＤ：大量破壊兵器情報捏造・情報操作疑惑関連書類）
に対してのブレアの反応。
NNNGHH ! I 、、、I 、、、NNNGGHH ! I did not、、、
NNHGG ! NNNGHH ! I did not have relations with that dossier !、、、NNNNGGHH !!
んんんんんんんん、、わ、わ、わ、私は関係ない。あんな書類には、、！
Blair told: it's time to answer vital questions
Michael White and Matt Wells
Tuesday July 8, 2003
The Guardian
The government was last night confronted with fresh challenges to its case for
waging war in Iraq when a Labour dominated Commons committee posed a series of
unexpectedly sceptical questions about Whitehall's prewar intelligence
assessment.
Far from giving Tony Blair's defence of his government's conduct an easy run,
the Commons foreign affairs select committee listed four unanswered questions
over claims made in the September dossier about Saddam Hussein's chemical,
biological and nuclear weapons programmes and his missing missiles.
As expected, the committee formally acquitted Mr Blair's communications director,
Alastair Campbell, of "improper influence" or "sexing up" the dossier by
knowingly inserting false claims that Saddam's weapons could be deployed within
45 minutes of an order, and doing so against the advice of intelligence
officials. But they still want ministers to say if they continue to believe that
claim is accurate.
"We conclude that the 45 minutes claim did not warrant the prominence given to
it in the dossier, because it was based on intelligence from a single,
uncorroborated source. We recommend that the government explain why the claim
was given such prominence," the report states.
It is now up to the much more secretive intelligence and security committee to
question M16 in private. It will report in the autumn.
By then ministers will have had time to reply to yesterday's challenges -
probably in a matter of weeks, senior officials said.
The four questions the government must answer are:
・ Is the September dossier's verdict on Iraq's chemical and biological weapons
threat still valid?
・ What is the current assessment of the dossier's warnings on Samoud 2 missiles
and its claim that Iraq had 20 unaccounted for Hussein missiles?
・ When was Jack Straw, foreign secretary, told that documents claiming Iraq had
sought uranium from Niger were forged?
・ Is the "45 minute" claim accurate in the light of the subsequent war when
weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were not used?
No 10 will not readily back off any of its dossier data and yesterday even
defended parts of the "dodgy dossier". Privately Blair aides admit that the MPs
are right to say that the 300-strong Iraq Survey Group, currently searching for
weapons, is crucial to the final verdict on WMD.
The opposition leader, Iain Duncan Smith, called for Mr Blair to apologise for "
inadvertently" misleading the Commons.
The Liberal Democrat leader, Charles Kennedy, called for an independent inquiry
because the incomplete report "takes us little further forward".
He complained that the "Auntie v Ali" show had been a cynical sideshow.
Yesterday's report, entitled The Decision to Go to War in Iraq, was hailed as
vindication by both Downing Street and the BBC, which has been under intense
pressure to admit it made an error and to apologise for first promoting the "
sexing up" claim, which it said came from an unnamed intelligence official, on
May 29.
As revealed in last Thursday's Guardian, the MPs decided: "We conclude that
Alastair Campbell did not play any role in the inclusion of the 45 minute claim"
and that "ministers did not mislead parliament" over the "dodgy dossier"
published in February and containing material culled from a PhD thesis.
But the report is scathing about that dossier - for which Mr Campbell was
responsible - calling it "wholly counter-productive" and presented to parliament
in a "fundamentally wrong" way in which the prime minister himself "
inadvertently made a bad situation worse".
Last night Mr Campbell denied waging a vendetta against the BBC, but renewed his
call for the corporation to admit that allegations first made by a defence
correspondent, Andrew Gilligan, were false, rather than simply defending its
right to broadcast them.
He did not call for an apology, but does not intend to drop the issue.
No 10 hinted that its milder tone will make it easier for the BBC to back down.
But BBC executives also claimed vindication for their determination, backed by
the board of governors, not to be browbeaten. Greg Dyke, the director general,
sent staff a congratulatory email and claimed that Mr Campbell had "stepped back
" from his sweeping attack on BBC fairness.
Richard Sambrook, the BBC's director of news, said he wanted to move on. "We are
prepared to draw a line under it today if the government is," he said.
Downing Street continued to complain that the BBC had failed to say whether it
be lieved the claims made by Gilligan's source, but Mr Sambrook said it did not
have to. The source was senior and credible enough to report his concerns,
particularly in the light of concerns about the second, "dodgy", dossier.
John Humphrys, the Radio 4 Today programme presenter, said the episode had
proved the BBC's mettle.
"We're an independent news organisation. We take our orders from our bosses and
not Alastair Campbell," he told MediaGuardian.co.uk.
The 11-strong committee of MPs reached yesterday's 33 conclusions after a series
of votes to toughen its language in which three Tory MPs and one Liberal
Democrat were intermittently joined by the committee's Labour chairman, Donald
Anderson, and the maverick backbencher Andrew Mackinlay.
But one Tory amendment which would have delivered a sceptical "non proven"
verdict on Mr Campbell's role was defeated 6-4, and another 6-5 on Mr Anderson's
casting vote, leaving committee members complaining that they had not been
given enough documentation to make a proper judgment on the case.
Key points
The committee challenged the government to answer four key questions:
・ Does it still consider its September dossier to be accurate
・ Does it still consider claims about Iraq's ability to pose a threat within 45
minutes to be accurate
・ What is its current assessment of Iraq's missile infrastructure
・ When did it learn from the CIA that documents related to claims that Iraq had
taken uranium from Niger were forged
Other conclusions
・ Ministers did not mislead parliament
・ It is too early to tell whether the government's assertions on Iraq's banned
weapons will be borne out
・ The"dodgy dossier" was badly handled and counter-productive
・ The prime minister's presentation of the dossier in parliament "inadvertently
made a bad situation worse"
・ On the evidence available, Alastair Campbell did not exert improper influence
on drafting of September dossier. However, he should not have chaired meetings
on intelligence matters
・ The first dossier "was in all probability well-founded on the basis of the
intelligence then available"
・ Andrew Gilligan's contacts should be investigated
・ Committee should have been allowed to take evidence from intelligence papers
and personnel
Foreign affairs committee report
Read the MPs' report in full (pdf)
07.07.2003: Conclusions and recommendations
07.07.2003: Reaction in quotes
Related stories
07.07.2003: Britain 'knew uranium claims were false'
07.07.2003: Experts grow more sceptical about extent of threat
07.07.2003: Governors back BBC in row over Iraq dossier
07.07.2003: Peter Preston: It's a charade and we all know it
07.07.2003: MPs clear Campbell of doctoring dossier
The dossiers
The government's September dossier on Iraqi WMD (pdf)
The government's February dossier on Iraqi WMD (pdf)
Full texts
07.07.2003: The BBC governors' statement
07.07.2003: Extract from committee report on Andrew Gilligan and Alastair
Campbell
Explained
03.06.2003: The different government inquiries
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