A little while ago I read an article in the Medicine Hat News about a weapons inspector that had been found dead somewhere in England. I made the offhand remark that I felt foul play had been involved and my dad was pretty mad that I would insinuate that the British Government would ever do such a thing. Well Dad this article isn’t proof of my suspicions, but it does add fuel to the fire.
Mr Broucher said he had discussed the dossier with Dr Kelly and told the inquiry that it was part of his job to “sell” the dossier to senior officials at the UN, many of whom found it “unconvincing”.
Dr Kelly had defended the dossier, saying there had been a lot of pressure to make it “as robust as possible”.
Mr Broucher said he asked Dr Kelly what would happen if the coalition went to war with Iraq.
He told the inquiry: “His reply was, which I took at the time to be a throwaway remark, he said ‘I will probably be found dead in the woods’.”
Mr Broucher added: “I didn’t report it at the time to anyone because I didn’t attribute any particular significance to it.
“I thought he might have meant that he was at risk of being attacked by the Iraqis in some way.”
Was I still so wrong to question the circumstance of his death?