Blair, Bush & Iraq | 8. The Pieces of the Puzzle
The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight
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🗓️ 17 November 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:27.2 | 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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