With thanks to Roger Lee.
Blair gave a speech on 18 March 2003. The full text is on this link: http://www.guardian
You will note that he alluded to the defection of Saddam's son-in-law, Hussein Kamal, and claimed that Kamal had 'disclosed a far more extensive BW [biological weapons] programme and for the first time said Iraq had weaponised the programme'.
Compare, however, the transcript of the Kamal interrogation (22 Aug 1995), which is here: http://www.fair.
What Kamal said was, 'I ordered destruction of all chemical weapons. All weapons - biological, chemical, missile, nuclear - were destroyed.'
A deliberate misquotation of evidence to justify the illegal invasion of a Muslim country and all the killing and destruction that followed.
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