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Government told: Release secret Iraq documents

Additions to sexed-up weapons docs The Information Commissioner Richard Thomas has told the government that it should release draft versions of a dossier about Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction and comments made on it by spy chiefs.… ...full story at the register (uk)

from the register (uk) on Fri, Sep 05 2008

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