Hutton may hear from Iraqi 'source' (UK's Hutton Inquiry re-opened?)

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Hutton may hear from Iraqi 'source'
by MATTHEW HICKLEY, Daily Mail
8th December 2003

he Hutton Inquiry could be re-opened after an Iraqi army officer said he was the source for the claim that Saddam could launch a biological or chemical attack within 45 minutes.

The former middle-ranking Iraqi commander, known only as Lieutenant-Colonel al-Dabbagh, said yesterday that he passed information to British intelligence before the war.

This, he believes, prompted the Government's 45-minute claim.

The material - and later accusations that it was used to "sex up" the Government's dossier on Iraq against the wishes of intelligence experts - are at the heart of the investigation by Lord Hutton into the suicide of weapons scientist Dr David Kelly.

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