Blix, Hans

Blix, Hans, Disarming Iraq, New York Pantheon (2004). 

The Butler Report, released in July 2004, strongly criticised the British government s report on Iraq s WMD. Lord Butler made it clear in the report that the claim that Iraq possessed chemical weapons ready for deployment depended on hearsay, at second-hand, from a source who turned out to be unreliable. The Butler committee concluded that they were struck by the relative thinness of the intelligence base... especially the inferential nature of much of it. 78 Downing Street saw exactly the same intelligence and yet came to the conclusion that it established beyond doubt that Iraq possessed real WMD.79 As Hans Blix observed a week before the Butler Report, the British government refused to think critically about the evidence, even when he reported that 500 searches had produced no evidence of WMD.80... 

Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq, Pantheon Books (2004), Chapter 1, Moments of Truth. ... 

Dr Hans Blix and colleagues. International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna. 

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