MI6 and CIA 'knew' before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD

In a new development, the lies of the British and USA governments' claims come to forth which misled the UN and the world and making everyone believe that Iraq had WMDs - where as in reality Iraq had none and Bush and Blair knew it.

It may be recalled thta the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair told parliament before the war that intelligence showed Iraq's nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programme was "active", "growing" and "up and running".

Now fresh evidence is revealed Monday about how MI6 and the CIA were told through secret channels by Saddam Hussein's foreign minister and his head of intelligence that Iraq had no active weapons of mass destruction.

The evidence now shows that Naji Sabri, Saddam's foreign minister, told the CIA's station chief in Paris at the time, Bill Murray, through an intermediary that Iraq had "virtually nothing" in terms of WMD.

Panorama in its report confirms that three months before the war an MI6 officer met Iraq's head of intelligence, Tahir Habbush al-Tikriti, who also said that Saddam had no active WMD. The meeting in the Jordanian capital, Amman, took place days before the British government published its now widely discredited Iraqi weapons dossier in September 2002.

Lord Butler, the former cabinet secretary who led an inquiry into the use of intelligence in the runup to the invasion of Iraq, tells the programme that he was not told about Sabri's comments, and that he should have been.

Butler says of the use of intelligence: "There were ways in which people were misled or misled themselves at all stages."

Panorama says it asked for an interview with Blair but he said he was "too busy".

Read more about it at: The Guardian
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