Blair takes 'full responsibility' for intelligence failures on Iraq

The British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, accepted "full personal
responsibility" yesterday for a failure to reflect the "limited . . .
sparse . . . and flawed" nature of intelligence in his government's
controversial Iraqi weapons dossier. Frank Millar, London Editor reports

Mr Blair also used the publication of the Butler report to accept for
the first time that "it seems increasingly clear that at the time of the
invasion Saddam (Hussein) did not have stockpiles of chemical or
biological weapons ready to deploy".

From today's Irish Times.