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From The Guardian yesterday morning:
British security sources last night were quick to distance themselves from Colin Powell’s claim that the murder of the special branch officer Stephen Oake in Manchester was linked to a leading al-Qaida terrorist harboured by Iraq … Security sources last night said there was no solid evidence to support Mr Powell’s allegations. One referred to “jumping to conclusions”, and suggested that the US was making a leap too far.
And from the transcript of Tony Blair’s interview on Newsnight last night:
BLAIR: …what Colin Powell was talking about yesterday is correct. The poison factory in northern Iraq, not strictly under the control of Saddam, is run by operatives that have people in Baghdad and the stuff that they are producing there which includes ricin and other poisons we believe is being dispersed throughout the world.
Not quite an out-and-out backtrack, but certainly a confusing blur.
Meanwhile, The Guardian has produced an excellent Flash guide to possible terrorist targets in the UK. The final slide, which shows the likely effect of a very small dirty bomb in the centre of London, makes sobering reading.
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