"Peter Ellis" wrote in message
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On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, IMM wrote:

Sounds like an intelligence cock up. Nevertheless a trivial point. They
could have WMD within days. Kelly said so.

No, he didn't. He said they wanted WMD, and that they were committed to
acquiring them, but that *if* they had stockpiles, it would take days
rather than minutes to mobilise them and use them.

The BBC knew it had screwed up totally. They put out a Panorama prog to
lessen the blow to the public before the report (the BBC investigating the
BBC) and showed an unbroadcast outtake of Kelly clearly saying they could
have WMD within weeks, and the emphasis on "days".