Introduction
and key findings ........................................................................................
289
The UK
assessment of Iraq’s position, October to
December 2002 .............................
290
Iraq’s
rebuttal of the UK dossier .............................................................................
291
JIC
Assessment, 11 October 2002: ‘Iraq: The Return of UN
Inspectors’ ................
293
The US
National Intelligence Estimate ...................................................................
296
President
Bush’s speech in Cincinnati, 7 October 2002 ..................................
297
Security
Council open debate, 16 and 17 October 2002 ........................................
298
JIC Current
Intelligence Group Assessment, 28 October 2002:
‘Global Chemical
and Biological Weapons Survey’ ................................................
299
Iraq’s
response to resolution 1441 ..........................................................................
301
JIC
Assessment, 14 November 2002: ‘Iraq: Regime Cohesion
Under
Pressure’ ..........................................................................................................
303
Intelligence
update, 21 November 2002 ..........................................................
304
Security
Council, 25 November 2002 ...............................................................
306
FCO advice,
29 November 2002 ......................................................................
307
JIC
Assessment, 6 December 2002: ‘Iraq: Military
Options’ ...................................
307
Iraq’s
declaration of 7 December and the UK response .........................................
309
Doubts
about the sourcing chain for SIS reports issued on
11 and 23
September 2002 ..............................................................................
312
JIC
Assessment, 18 December 2002 ...............................................................
314
Security
Council, 19 December 2002 ...............................................................
318
The absence
of a “smoking gun” ..................................................................................
320
UNMOVIC’s
activities .............................................................................................
323
Mr Blair’s
interview on BBC’s
Breakfast
with Frost, 26
January 2003 ....................
324
Security
Council, 27 January 2003 .........................................................................
329
JIC
Assessment, 29 January 2003 .........................................................................
333
Cabinet, 30
January 2003 .......................................................................................
337
‘Iraq – Its
Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and
Intimidation’ ...................
337
Secretary
Powell’s presentation to the Security Council,
5 February 2003 ............
342
Meetings
with Dr Blix and Dr ElBaradei, 6 February 2003 .....................................
344
287