Intelligence chiefs warned Blair US ‘fixed’ case for Iraq war

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair was warned by his intelligence chiefs that the case for war against Iraq was being fixed by the United States to suit their policy, it was claimed yesterday.

In a meeting chaired by Mr Blair in July 2003, Richard Dearlove, head of the Secret Intelligence Service MI6, is on record as saying "the facts and the intelligence" were being "fixed round the policy" by the Bush Administration, according to a BBC documentary.

The Panorama programme claims British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw questioned whether former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein posed a sufficient threat to justify invasion.