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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,993004,00.html

Focus on BBC row seen as limiting inquiry into intelligence

Ewen MacAskill and Richard Norton-Taylor
Monday July 7, 2003
The Guardian

The Commons foreign affairs committee is scheduled to release its Iraq report today. In spite of its title, The Decision to Go to War in Iraq, MPs have focused on the BBC-Downing Street spat.
In the run-up to the war, the Guardian assembled a panel of weapons experts from both sides of the Atlantic - former inspectors, academics and soldiers - to evaluate the argument for war as it was presented.

We returned to several of those experts to ask them what they thought today about the two British dossiers on Iraq as well as Colin Powell's crucial UN speech in January. While they all still recognise that Iraq used to possess weapons of mass destruction, they have grown substantially more sceptical about the extent of the threat. They also question the accuracy of prewar intelligence on Iraq and the use that the government made of it.

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