LONDON, England (CNN) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair stood firm Wednesday on his government's use of intelligence information on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, saying he had "no doubt at all" of its accuracy.
Ahead of Wednesday evening's broadcast, Mr Blair was challenged about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction by Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy in prime minister's questions.
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Sir John Chilcot, 70, is a former permanent under-secretary of state at the Northern Ireland Office and has been chairman since 2001 of the Police Foundation and sat on the Butler Inquiry into the intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
He claimed, wrongly, that the State Department Bureau's of Intelligence and Research (INR) had, under his leadership, been the only intelligence agency to assess correctly the actual pre-invasion status of Saddam Hussein's various weapons of mass destruction programs.
As the post-war situation deteriorated, and the pre-war intelligence Chalabi supplied about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction did not pan out, the relationship soured.
Over the weekend former federal prosecutor and the head of the non-governmental International Intelligence Summit, John Loftus, released a report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
Meanwhile, Mr Blair told UK ambassadors in a speech on Tuesday that any weakness tackling the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction would be rued in the future.
Critics of George W. Bush harshly chastised him for allegedly misleading the American people about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction in order to get us into a needless and unjustified war.
Mr. El Baradei made a public fuss last week about one British-U.S. claim that turns out to have been false, but which was in any case peripheral to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Under the headline "Risks of Abandoning Deterrence, " Mr. Gaffney argues that Saddam's current machinations (2) adds urgency to ensuring the U.S. retains the most effective possible means of deterring the Iraqi despot's potential use of weapons of mass destruction.
Senior State Department officials said Friday's move was part of a "carefully calculated series of steps" the United States decided to take in response to Libya's cooperation on weapons of mass destruction.
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Opposition forces have captured numerous sites U.S. officials suspect bin Laden used to develop weapons of mass destruction, and U.S. authorities were conducting extensive tests on items found there.
After the war was declared over, Blair faced pressure from media critics and his own backbenchers over his repeated assertions that Saddam's regime had weapons of mass destruction.
"There is no one answer, " she said, stressing that the U.S. strategy against weapons of mass destruction must be comprehensive -- on the diplomacy front as well as on testing.
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Former top U.S. weapons inspector David Kay said last month it was "highly unlikely" Iraq had significant stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction before the U.S.-led invasion.
His official spokesman said the "context" of any visit would be that Libya accepted Britain's positions on Lockerbie, Wpc Fletcher and weapons of mass destruction.
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Hoon repeated Wednesday that he was not disappointed by the coalition's failure to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
PARIS, France (Reuters) -- French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said Libya's decision to abandon its weapons of mass destruction programs was an important move.
In one case, officials said, an Iraqi scientist was shot in the back of the head while walking down a street hours after leaving an interview with members of the U.S. Iraq Survey Group, which is searching for weapons of mass destruction.
Officials say he is an associate of Najibullah Zazi, who is accused of conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction on U.S. soil.
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U.S. troops have found no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Mr Bush is hoping that Mr Assad will follow the lead of his fellow Arab dictator, Libya's Muammar Qaddafi, who agreed late last year to America's demands that he scrap his weapons of mass destruction.
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In the region, the incident was confirming fears over the Syrian war's potential to spur the use of weapons of mass destruction, a senior Jordanian official said.
In an advanced written report to council members, he says any attempt by Iraq to prevent inspections would gravely affect the UN's efforts to verify Baghdad's claims to have destroyed all its weapons of mass destruction.
In the wake of the recent revelation of a National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) report about the discovery in Iraq of some 500 chemical weapons, the House Armed Services Committee took testimony from military intelligence and civilian experts about the threat posed - both before and after Iraq's liberation - by these and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) amassed by the regime of Saddam Hussein.
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But David Kay, the former head of the U.S. inspection team, said in January that he does not expect any weapons of mass destruction to be found.
He discussed the U.S. government's knowledge of Iraq procurement efforts in the weapons of mass destruction field.
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Aziz said that his country's neighbors don't share the U.S. preoccupation with whether Iraq has amassed weapons of mass destruction.
Included in Mr Bary's list of charges are conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, the bombing of both embassies, murder and attempted murder.
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