Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Paul Flynn (Labour), on Wednesday, 29 January 2003, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 27 members in total.

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MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

That this House notes that all the sites listed in the UK dossier on Iraq of 24th September 2002 have subsequently been inspected by UNMOVIC and IAEA inspectors who report that they have not discovered 'any signs of weapons of mass destruction of any programmes for their production'; recalls that some of the sites visited on the day of the publication of the dossier were found to be derelict or used for benign purposes; further notes that on page 34 of the dossier it is claimed that 'Iraq consistently refused to allow UNSCOM inspectors access to any of the presidential sites'; but that the UNSCOM document S/1998/326 reports that 'The initial entry to the eight presidential sites in Iraq was performed by mission UNSCOM 243 during the period from 25th March to 4th April 1998... Co-operation from Iraqi counterparts was satisfactory'; believes that the intelligence provided for the dossier has proved to be unreliable and inaccurate; urges that no future intelligence claims should be accepted until it has been meticulously verified; and notes with alarm the prospect that similar uncorroborated claims could be used as a pretext to send British soldiers into battle to kill and to be killed.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

608 

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Access Chemical and biological warfare Inspections Iraq Weapons Military intelligence

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk