Fresh calls for judicial inquiry as Britain's Iraq dossier row rages

[Nambe]

Agence France-Presse

The British government faced fresh calls for a judicial inquiry following further twists in its bitter row with the BBC over the handling of secret intelligence in an Iraqi weapons dossier.

Rodric Braithwaite, who was foreign affairs adviser to former prime minister John Major, told The Financial Times newspaper that a judicial inquiry should be launched to address the continued scepticism about the government's justification for going to war.

If within eight months or so it was shown that the case for war had been based on a non-existent threat it would "leave the government looking very tattered," said Braithwaite, a former head of parliament's Joint Intelligence Committee. ---

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[Nottingham]

1. Ya the BBC is in a Big Fight. Go BBC! Freedom of Press!

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