The Report
of the Iraq Inquiry
557.
In
addition, the tendency to refer in public statements only to
Iraq’s
“weapons of
mass destruction” without addressing their nature (the type
of
warhead and
whether they were battlefield or strategic weapons systems)
or
how they
might be used (as a last resort against invading military forces or
as a
weapon of
terror to threaten civilian populations in other countries) was
likely to
have
created the impression that Iraq posed a greater threat than the
detailed JIC
Assessments
would have supported.
558.
The way in
which information was presented in the dossier on Iraq
published
on 24
September 2002 is addressed in Section 4.2.
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