Straw admits Iraqi arms dossier a source of ‘embarrassment’
Mr Straw, giving evidence to a foreign affairs select committee inquiry into the government’s handling of intelligence on Saddam Hussein’s arsenal, said the way the February 2003 document had been published was “complete Horlicks”.
No minister, including himself, had seen the document apart from Mr Blair, he said. Mr Straw apologised to the Californian student whose PhD thesis, containing 12-year-old material, was plagiarised by a team working for Mr Campbell.
