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Invasion of Iraq

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Chronological records

2004

Hans Blix8 February 2004

Warfare / Nuclear

Blix accuses the US and British Governments of dramatising the threat of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, in order to strengthen the case for the 2003 war against the regime of Saddam Hussein

Names involved

Hans Blix

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