BBC reveals it has key tape of dead scientist

[spinbaby]

LONDON (AFP) - The BBC said it had a tape of defence expert David Kelly, the man whose apparent suicide sparked a political crisis for Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites), expressing concern about the way Iraq (news - web sites) weapons intelligence was presented by the government in the run-up to war.

The Guardian newspaper said the public broadcaster believed the tape was the "smoking gun" which would back up a controversial BBC report on claims that Blair's office exaggerated the contents of a dossier on Iraq in order to beef up the case for military action.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1512&e=8&u=/afp/20030723/wl_afp/iraq_weapons_britain_030723122507

[trumad]

1. Tony may have played his last hand....

[Merlin]

2. Wow! They played this hand like an expert.

They waited until Tony's folks trotted out all kinds of innuendo and bluster, then revealed the tape. Well done!

[Nottingham]

3. OMG!! This is Gonna be Blair's political death sentence

:bounce:

[Bozola]

4. Didn't I just hear that the entire staff and Board of Directors at the BBC

are feeling very depressed and they're all planning on flying to Scotland in a chartered fleet of small, poorly maintained aircraft, piloted by ex-felons?