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The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight

Blair, Bush & Iraq | 8. The Pieces of the Puzzle

The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight

Sony Music

Society & Culture, News, Documentary, Politics, True Crime

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Tony Blair finally has to come face to face with his party and his country. To sell his war to parliament and to the public. Little does he know that in a few short months the weapons' inspectors, searching through the rubble in Iraq, will find something that will haunt him for the rest of his life and career. And it will leave us, the people, asking - can we ever trust our politicians again? Want the full story? Unlock all episodes of The Fault Line, ad-free, right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month — that’s all episodes, all at once, all ad-free. Just click ‘Subscribe’ on the top of The Fault Line show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you listen. A Somethin' Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Today. It's July 2003, a few months, a

0:37.0

It's July 2003, a few months after the invasion of Iraq,

0:42.0

and Hamish Killipp a British biologist is in Baghdad.

0:47.0

He's been given an important mission finally to find Saddam Hussein's weapons of

0:52.3

mass destruction.

0:54.1

He's joining a big team hunting through the desert for the weapons they're sure they're about to

0:59.0

discover.

1:00.0

I don't know how they've been briefed but they seem to have third expectation that it was just a matter of opening a few bunkers and there the stuff would be.

1:09.6

Hamish was more sceptical. He'd worked as a weapons inspector back in the 90s. He knew the lie of the land in Iraq and when he arrived in the country he started work and as weapons inspectors do went out on inspection after inspection, but always coming back empty-handed.

1:26.2

And we got to a point, we said, you know, we really do need to tackle this.

1:30.3

And so I asked to see the information.

1:32.4

He wanted to see the information.

1:37.0

He wanted to see where the evidence had come from. The evidence about the hidden weapons that President Bush and Prime Minister Blair had said were there.

1:44.0

Hamish knew there were only a few sources for this evidence.

1:47.0

In particular, there was this one source which, I see, you call closed blocks.

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