Government ‘should disclose analysis on WMD’

THE Government will come under pressure today to disclose the intelligence it relied upon in assessing whether the Iraqi regime possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

Following announcements by US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair that they were setting up independent inquiries into intelligence failures, opposition parties have said that the Government should disclose its own analysis on WMD.

While Ireland was precluded by its UN commitments from supporting the invasion, it allowed military troops to use Shannon as a transit stop.