The long-awaited Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war is due to report on 6 July. Credit: Matt Dunham / PA Images
As preparations for the invasion of Iraq later that month were ramped-up to deafening decibel levels in Washington and London, the Guardian’s then Washington Editor, Julian Borger – now World Affairs Editor – filed an intriguing story (“Defector’s testimony confuses case against Iraq, I March 2003,) which included the following revelation:
“The transcript of the interrogation of Hussein Kamel, the former head of Iraq’s weapons programmes and Saddam’s son-in-law [who defected in 1995 to Jordan] – leaked this week to Newsweek magazine and seen by the Guardian – reveal that Kamel told UN inspectors that Iraq had destroyed all its chemical and biological weapons and abandoned its nuclear programme after the Gulf war.”
