http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=422713Britain and the United States had no clear intelligence on whether Iraq could use its supposed weapons of mass destruction during the war, the Ministry of Defence admitted yesterday.
The MoD's first official report into the Iraq conflict gave no support to Tony Blair's claim that Saddam Hussein was "ready" to use chemical and biological armament "within 45 minutes".
In fact, the report acknowledges very limited intelligence was available to the Allied forces before the invasion in March." It was therefore a very difficult intelligence target with few sources of information", the document said.
The Liberal Democrat defence spokesman, Paul Keetch, said: "The truth of the matter has fallen between the spooks and the spinners."
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