25 September 2006

Does this still count as news?

This headline from yesterday's Independent : "Blair 'turned blind eye to Iraq intelligence' in Bush meeting".

Blair didn't counter Bush when the President claimed that Iraq had bought aluminium tubes to use for nuclear weapons production even though he had"received 'private briefings' which indicated that the aluminium tubes were more likely to be for conventional weapons". The claims come from a new edition of Lawless World by Philippe Sands published due to be published tomorrow.

I think the PM just got confused when Bush said "aluminum" rather than "aluminium". The extra syllable makes all the difference.

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