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イラク侵攻10日前、ブレア英首相はサダムフセインが大量破壊兵器を保有していないとの報告を受けていた・・・英イラク戦争調査委員会で英外務連邦省防衛情報担当官が証言。ブレアは英国民を騙した戦争犯罪者として歴史に名を残すのか？ブレア証言は来年。
http://twitter.com/gloomynews/statuses/6074397487
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以下、「TIMES ONLINE」の記事の転載です。
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6932597.ece
November 26, 2009
Blair 'knew Saddam did not have WMD before war started'
David Brown and Francis Elliott
Intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have access to weapons of mass destruction was received by the Government ten days before Tony Blair ordered the invasion of Iraq, the inquiry into the war was told yesterday.
Inspectors in Iraq had also told the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that they believed that Saddam might not have chemical and biological weapons. But with British and US troops massed on the border, the new intelligence was dismissed.
Sir William Ehrman, the Foreign Office’s director-general of defence and intelligence at the time, told the inquiry that information was receivedjust before the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003. “We did at the very end, I think on March 10, get a report that chemical weapons might have remained disassembled and Saddam hadn’t yet ordered their assembly,” he said. “There was also a suggestion that Iraq might lack warheads capable of effective dispersal of agents.”
Sir William said that it had not made any difference to the case for war. “I don’t think it invalidated the point about the programmes he had,” he said. “It was more about use. From the counter-proliferation point of view it just proved [Saddam] had been lying and that he had prohibited items.”
Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector, told the Foreign Office at the end of February 2003 that Saddam might not have weapons of mass destruction, the inquiry was told. Mr Blair continued to say there was a risk to national security from WMD without mentioning the new intelligence.
Tim Dowse, the Foreign Office’s head of counter-proliferation at the time, said that in 2001 the threat from Iraq had been placed behind those from Iran, Libya and North Korea. Iraq’s nuclear programme was believed to have been stopped by UN inspectors in the 1990. The chemical and biological weapons Iraq was thought to possess were not regarded primarily as battlefield weapons, he said.
But new intelligence suggesting that chemical and biological weapons were being produced by Iraq began to arrive in August and September 2002. “In a way it did not come as a great surprise,” Mr Dowse said. “It enabled us to firm up the assessment that had previously been carefully caveated.”
He told the inquiry that he was not surprised by the now notorious claim, in a government dossier published before the invasion, that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction that could be used within 45 minutes. He assumed that the claim referred to a battlefield weapon, not an interstate missile, but that was not spelt out.
Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, accused Gordon Brown of trying to “suffocate” the inquiry by giving Whitehall a veto on what could be in Sir John Chilcot’s report. Mr Clegg said a protocol to Sir John governing publication included nine reasons why information could be suppressed.
Alongside national security and international relations, the document lists “legal professional privilege” and “commercially sensitive information”.
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Tony Blair told there were no WMD in Iraq 10 days before invasion 26/11/2009 Mirror.co.uk
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/11/26/tony-blair-told-there-were-no-wmd-in-iraq-10-days-before-invasion-115875-21850852/
イラク参戦は正義か？ 英で証人喚問、ブレア氏も対象（朝日新聞）
http://www.asyura2.com/09/warb2/msg/124.html
国家指導者、嘘つき放題、詐欺やり放題の２１世紀：ブッシュ、ブレアー、ライス、小泉・・・
http://www.asyura2.com/09/wara7/msg/321.html
Re: Re:【ブレアが圧力ｗ】ブレア前首相が非公開要請 イラク戦争調査委でと英紙
http://www.asyura2.com/09/warb0/msg/167.html
Re:「４５分以内に配備可能」英政府報告書は情報操作。ブレアがイラク戦争前に根拠にしていた情報は完全な捏造でした！茶番
http://asyura2.com/08/wara1/msg/592.html
ＣＩＡの反乱 ２００４年１０月１５日 田中宇
http://www.tanakanews.com/e1015CIA.htm
ケリー博士はマスコミ各社の記者に対する「匿名の情報源」として振る舞い「イラクが大量破壊兵器を持っている」というストーリーを書かせることが仕事だったが、そもそもケリー博士はイラクが大量破壊兵器を持っていなかったことを知っていたらしく、それを英議会の調査委員会で暴露しようとしたため、何者かに殺された可能性が高い。すでにイギリスでは、ケリー博士の死が自殺ではなかったと考える専門家が多くなっている。
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