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ze_dscherman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 10:23 AM
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Hoon 'ordered Kelly to face MPs'
Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon over-ruled his most senior civil servant to order Dr David Kelly to appear before MPs investigating the Iraq weapons row, the Hutton inquiry has heard.

And it also emerged that Dr Kelly told a senior Foreign Office official that he had spoken to the BBC's Andrew Gilligan before the reporter's controversial broadcast about the weapons dossier.

More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3149495.stm



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