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Who knew about WMD claim: Rudd
news.com.au -- February 7, 2004

LABOR today demanded to know whether pre-war advice that Iraq had only the remnants of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) was given to government ministers.

The Age newspaper reported Roger Hill, who led a UN weapons inspection team in Iraq in 1998, told Australian troops before the war in Iraq that Iraq did not (not) have the ability to launch WMD at its neighbours.

Mr Hill, who formerly served in the Special Air Service, reportedly briefed SAS troops that Iraq had almost no capacity to use WMD in the battlefield.

Labor foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd said Mr Hill's briefing to the troops contradicted public statements made at the time by Prime Minister John Howard on Iraq's WMD capability.

"Here we have John Howard's credibility torpedoed amidships," Mr Rudd said.

- mark 2-07-2004 9:22 am [link]



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