US, Britain allowed ‘spin’, says Blix

FORMER UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix accused the US and Britain yesterday of “over-interpreting” information about Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction.

Dr Blix claimed that the two countries allowed "spin" to infect their presentation of intelligence about Iraq's military capabilities ahead of the war.

Dr Blix, interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, was asked if the US and Britain had talked up the case for war.