The Report
of the Iraq Inquiry
Mr Straw’s
speech, 11 February 2003 ....................................................................
347
The UK
contribution to UNMOVIC’s investigations .................................................
348
The
perspective of the inspectors ...........................................................................
350
SIS advice
of 17 and 20 February 2003 .................................................................
354
Briefings
for Cabinet Members and Committee Chairs ..........................................
355
Would Iraq
use chemical and biological weapons? ................................................
359
Presentation
of the UK position ..............................................................................
361
The
position in March ....................................................................................................
363
The IAEA
position on Iraq’s nuclear programme ....................................................
363
UK
assessments of Iraq’s intentions .......................................................................
364
Security
Council, 7 March 2003 ..............................................................................
365
Security
Council open debate, 11 and 12 March 2003 ...........................................
369
No.10
advice to Mr Blair .........................................................................................
370
Mr Cook’s
resignation statement, 17 March 2003 ..................................................
371
Mr Scarlett’s
advice, 17 March 2003 ......................................................................
372
JIC Note,
19 March 2003: ‘Saddam: The Beginning of the End’ ............................
375
Security
Council, 19 March 2003 ............................................................................
378
Withdrawal
of intelligence .............................................................................................
379
SIS
reporting of 11 and 23 September 2002 ..........................................................
379
The
Intelligence and Security Committee’s view ..............................................
386
The Butler
Review ............................................................................................
386
Ministerial
awareness that the reporting had been withdrawn .........................
387
Withdrawal
of two other streams of SIS reporting ..................................................
392
JIC
Assessment, 23 December 2004: ‘Iraqi WMD – A Review of
JIC
Judgements
made in 2002’ ..............................................................................
401
JIC
discussion, 9 February 2006 ......................................................................
405
Reliability
of intelligence .........................................................................................
405
A lesson
learned? .............................................................................................
409
Conclusions ..................................................................................................................
410
288