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UK FM Rescinds 45 Minutes Claim
12-Oct-2004       United Kingdom
World Claxon   Jack Straw  
Military    
U.S. War on Terror    
     
     
Jack Straw, UK Foreign Minister, announces to Parliament that the claim Saddam Hussein could use weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes has been officially withdrawn. said: "The Butler committee concluded that the validity of the line of reporting which included the 45-minute intelligence had come into question." He added "the chief of the Secret Intelligence Service has written to the Intelligence and Security Committee formally withdrawing" it.
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