Introduction
and key findings ........................................................................................
115
Late July
and August 2002 ............................................................................................
116
Mr Blair’s
meeting, 23 July 2002 ............................................................................
116
“Summer
reading” ...................................................................................................
121
Reservations
about the wisdom of publishing the dossier ......................................
124
Revision of
the WMD paper ....................................................................................
129
JIC
Assessment, 21 August 2002: ‘Iraq: Saddam’s Diplomatic and
Military
Options’ ...................................................................................................................
132
Mr Blair’s
position at the end of August 2002 .........................................................
134
September
2002 ...........................................................................................................
136
Mr Blair’s
decision to publish the dossier ...............................................................
136
The FCO
position on the problem posed by Iraq ....................................................
145
Mr Campbell’s
meeting, 5 September 2002 ...........................................................
149
Mr Blair’s
meeting with President Bush, Camp David,
7 September 2002 .............
154
JIC
Assessment, 9 September 2002 ......................................................................
156
Confirmation
of Mr Scarlett’s responsibility for producing the
dossier ....................
170
Draft
dossier, 10 September 2002 ..........................................................................
173
The view of
the JIC ..........................................................................................
175
Other
comments on 10 September draft dossier .............................................
179
Instructions
from No.10 ....................................................................................
182
The US
perspective ..........................................................................................
188
SIS report,
11 September 2002 ..............................................................................
190
Draft
dossier, 16 September 2002 ..........................................................................
197
Draft
dossier, 19 September 2002 ..........................................................................
203
Preparation
of Mr Blair’s Foreword .........................................................................
208
The final
version of the dossier .....................................................................................
215
Mr Blair’s
Foreword ................................................................................................
218
Key points
in the dossier .........................................................................................
219
Chemical
and biological weapons ....................................................................
220
Nuclear
weapons .............................................................................................
223
113