[CTRL] Weapons letter 'suppressed' by Downer A.K.A. Really? I NEVER would have guessed!

[David Minehan]

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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=126391
Weapons letter 'suppressed' by Downer
Thursday Aug 31 05:49 AEST

A former senior diplomat has accused Foreign Minister Alexander Downer of
issuing instructions to suppress a damning letter on the hunt for weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq after the war.

Dr John Gee, an expert on chemical weapons, worked with US-led weapons
hunter, the Iraq Survey Group, after the war and wrote the critical six-page
letter when he decided to resign, Fairfax newspapers report.

In the letter he warned the federal government the hunt was "fundamentally
flawed" and that there was a "distinct reluctance on the part of many here
and in Washington to face the facts" that Iraq had no weapons of mass
destruction.

Dr Gee recorded in an email soon after that "Downer has issued instructions
it (my letter) is not to be distributed to anyone".







A spokesman for Mr Downer said the minister "did not recall" receiving Dr
Gee's letter but said he would check.

But he described as "a conspiracy theory" material showing that the letter
had not been given to the head of the Defence Department.

Mr Downer has previously acknowledged he was personally briefed by Dr Gee on
the expert's return from Iraq, but has never revealed the contents of that
briefing.


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