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UK admits flaws in Iraq dossier

THE OBSERVER, London
Downing Street is to express regret about the fundamental flaws in the second 'dodgy dossier' on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
Senior Whitehall sources told the Observer that the officials who will be called before the Intelligence and Security Committee inquiry into the weapons issue will say that the second dossier on Saddam's history of deception undermined public trust in government information.
If Blair is questioned on the issue, he will concede that mistakes were made.
Number 10 officials now admit that the second dossier, which was largely culled from a 13-year-old thesis by a Californian PhD student, is damaging the Government's case
for war against Iraq.
The dossier was published last February to coincide with Blair's 'war summit' with President George Bush in Washington. A week later it was revealed to be a mish-mash of intelligence reports, student work and publicly available briefings by Jane's Intelligence Review . None of the document acknowledged the sources, leaving the impression that it was all based on fresh intelligence.
One government figure admitted that it was used to fill a 'political vacuum' ahead of Colin Powell's presentation on the weapons to the United Nations Security Council.
Officials hope that admitting errors over the second dossier will strengthen their case on the first FROM PAGE 1
dossier, published last September which has been the subject of allegations that it was 'sexed up' to make a stronger case for war.
Although officials will admit that there are some 'serious questions' about claims in the first dossier that Saddam was trying to procure nuclear material from Niger - the claims were based on crudely forged documents - they will say that Number 10 relied on security analysis.
The committee inquiry will be given the original Joint Intelligence Committee report on Iraqi weapons which was wholly written by the security services so that it can be compared with the dossier published by Downing Street.
Number 10 will tell the inquiry that the JIC assessment was 'reordered' and some sections 'slightly rewritten'. It will say that every fact that appeared in the first dossier also appeared in the JIC assessment.
'Some of the structure might have been changed, some of the writing, but every single fact that appears in the dossier is taken direct from the JIC assessment,' a Number 10 official said.
'What some of us find remarkable is that you have Labour MPs believing anonymous briefings from the security services over the word of the Prime Minister and the posi-
tion of the Government. Can you imagine saying the same thing 20 years ago?'
A growing number of government figures are becoming convinced the security services have been involved in a pincer movement against Downing Street. In an attempt to cover-up their own failures, brought into sharp focus by the failure to uncover any evidence of the weapons since the war, they briefed that the politicians tried to overplay what they were told.
One senior government source said that John Reid, the Leader of the House of Commons, was wrong to claim that it was 'rogue elements' in the security services behind the briefings.
Number 10 now believes that it was a far more concerted attempt to undermine Downing Street's position and keep the intelligence services out of the firing line.
Meanwhile, Robin Cook was last night accused by a senior minister of 'pomposity' over Iraq. Energy minister Brian Wilson, who previously worked with Cook in the Foreign Office, tore into his former boss's criticisms of the war, saying the debate had become 'surreal'.
Cook had had access to 'overwhelming evidence' of Saddam Hussein's mission to acquire weapons of mass destruction when he