Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | WMD claims were 'totally implausible'

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | WMD claims were 'totally implausible': "Monday June 20, 2005
The Guardian

A key Foreign Office diplomat responsible for liaising with UN inspectors says today that claims the government made about Iraq's weapons programme were 'totally implausible'.

He tells the Guardian: 'I'd read the intelligence on WMD for four and a half years, and there's no way that it could sustain the case that the government was presenting. All of my colleagues knew that, too'.

Carne Ross, who was a member of the British mission to the UN in New York during the run-up to the invasion, resigned from the FO last year, after giving evidence to the Butler inquiry."