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    Foreign secretary alasdair CAMPBELL faces a grdhng from MPs over his role in preparing the Government's two controversial Iraq dossiers. Mr Campbell, Downing Street's head of comcommissioned mumcahons, was responsible for the second so-called 'dodgy' dossier on Iraq's security system. The Foreign Secretary made the Government's fitst public apology to a PhD student whose work was lifted from the Internet for 4000 inclusion

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    Foreign secretary alasdair CAMPBELL faces a grdhng from MPs over his role in preparing the Government's two controversial Iraq dossiers. Mr Campbell, Downing Street's head of comcommissioned mumcahons, was responsible for the second so-called 'dodgy' dossier on Iraq's security system. The Foreign Secretary made the Government's fitst public apology to a PhD student whose work was lifted from the Internet for 4000 inclusion

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    Foreign secretary alasdair CAMPBELL faces a grdhng from MPs over his role in preparing the Government's two controversial Iraq dossiers. Mr Campbell, Downing Street's head of comcommissioned mumcahons, was responsible for the second so-called 'dodgy' dossier on Iraq's security system. The Foreign Secretary made the Government's fitst public apology to a PhD student whose work was lifted from the Internet for 4000 inclusion

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    his role in preparing the Gov- _,tvAll cornfort, JaClc6traiv has given a new lease of Irfe,(o.~ was ineament or immediate,
    ernment's two controversial ?("horuclrs" as tlte swearword pf choice for the ruting etkss - lie said . Rather, he and the
    Iraq dossiers after Jack Show qt(I)avid Brown wr'ites) ; GoVertrnitretit ministers np_tV`t'mlke Prune Minister described the
    admitted that one was "em- a borlrcks° nr apobHcal crisis and~F]USG 100'eliainuen - threat as "current and sell-
    barrassing" ';lalk borltcks" when their sliare prtce plmutne)s- - ors; - which is very differ ent
    The Foreign Secretary dis- -xlus-uaage -is so -new~ that it does not' appear b ; Tile , "There was never any re-
    closed that Mr Campbell, "J'hosaurus orslang (1994), but it was iecorded in Brit Sfang quest for the so-called sexing
    Downing Street's head of com- - published in April It gives 1rorlicks As "s pctpdlar eupheni- up of either dossier, certainly
    mumcahons, commissioned . tsliifor'Ibnlloclrs"' liay 1'itrtley, the"iut$or ; said last night _ not the first dossier," lie said.
    the second so-called "dodgy' : "IL's one of those wprds Lnvented,Ilytlre middle dass :The` "It is not a case of these
    dossier on Iraq's security sys- working class would jusCSay-'ballocks' blit p~d[ilp uinffices things being sent back ]For re-
    tem issued m January wanted smuethfng more poltle" - _ ' drattmg] It is an iterative pro-
    Mr Straw appeared to set 'the first newspaper reference appeared m The'Sunday cess where various drafts are
    Mr Campbell up for a rough Tunes m January.1989 ivhema polrttcia"n't3a3 said in Itavl=", shared and documents go
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    (A ectComrmtteewhenhetoldit an advert, for the mdlt-driirk;=created by' Jantes :and~- r' "I make comments Other
    yesterday that he wished that WdBmn F[brhck in 18Td,featured a wotdan heconlitig pko=-_? mlmstcrsmake comments Off-
    tI ie d o cu men t had never been ,gressively more agitated until she screams; "Oh, horlicks"" d icials make comments It is not
    , published a question of anybody saying
    "Thete is no conspiracy be- 'T his must go back This won't
    hard d , m the vernacular, d In st dossier, issued m Septem- Straw dismissed claims -BJ`tTo It is 'Here is a document

    N was complete horhcks,


    way d was produced ;" he said.
    The Foreign Secretary eased
    the ber on Iraq's weapons of mass
    destruction, had been rewnt-
    ten to present "the best case"-
    Andrew Gilltgan, a BBC jour- Dues it present the best case
    nahst, that the first dossier was on the evidence?'
    "sexed up" by Mr Campbell to "I wassahsfied that the avail-
    ie pressure on Mr Campbell This dossier, unlike the say that Iraq's weapons of able Intelligence justified die the body of the report- Mt document were Ahsnn Black-
    a little by making the Govern- "dodgy" one, was cleared by mass destruction could be de- judgments made" Straw said that the JIC had shaw, Mr Campbell's personal
    ment's fitst public apology to theJoint Intelligence Commit- ployed within 45 minutes John Maples (Con, Strat- "ownerslup" of the dossier assistant, and three civil serv-
    tBe PhD student whose work tee (JIC), which indodes the In an attempt to end conh o- ford-on-Avon) said that the white not saying who actually ants, Paul Hamill, John Pratt Cot
    was lifted from the Internet for heads of M15 and MI6 But versy over the 45-mmute sununary of the weapons of wrote the final version and Mustaza Khan, from Mr Qu
    4000 inclusion m the dossier MPs faded to discover yestet- claim, repeated by Tony Blarr mass destruction dossier was The Nips wet e told that the Campbell's Communications Lot
    lie also admitted that the day who actually wrote rL Mr m the Commons, Mr Skraw, worded more strongly than authors oFthesecond "dodgy" and Information Centre Pat

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