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BBC reveals it has key tape of dead scientist
LONDON (AFP) - The BBC said it had a tape of defence expert David Kelly, the man whose apparent suicide sparked a political crisis for Prime Minister Tony Blair, expressing concern about the way Iraq weapons intelligence was presented by the government in the run-up to war.
The Guardian newspaper said the public broadcaster believed the tape was the "smoking gun" which would back up a controversial BBC report on claims that Blair's office exaggerated the contents of a dossier on Iraq in order to beef up the case for military action. The tape recording of a conversation between Kelly and Susan Watts, the science editor of the BBC's Newsnight programme, was expected to be submitted in evidence to a.....
LONDON (AFP) - The BBC said it had a tape of defence expert David Kelly, the man whose apparent suicide sparked a political crisis for Prime Minister Tony Blair, expressing concern about the way Iraq weapons intelligence was presented by the government in the run-up to war.
The Guardian newspaper said the public broadcaster believed the tape was the "smoking gun" which would back up a controversial BBC report on claims that Blair's office exaggerated the contents of a dossier on Iraq in order to beef up the case for military action. The tape recording of a conversation between Kelly and Susan Watts, the science editor of the BBC's Newsnight programme, was expected to be submitted in evidence to a.....
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