Wed, Sep 17, 2003 - Page 6 News List

Blair read the 45-minute claim wrong, MI6 says

HUTTON INQUIRYHead of MI6 Richard Dearlove said the claim in an intelligence dossier referred to battlefield weapons, but was taken to mean arms of a longer range

REUTERS , LONDON

His report follows a revelation last week that Blair ignored warnings from spy chiefs that war would raise the risk of militants like al-Qaeda acquiring weapons of mass destruction.

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