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Blair Sought Change to Iraq Dossier Before Release, FT Says

Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair asked for a claim that
Saddam Hussein could make an ``improvised nuclear device'' within months be put
back into a dossier days before its publication, the Financial Times said,
citing do***ents published by a probe into the death of a scientist.

John Scarlett, the head of the Joint Intelligence Committee, refused on the
grounds that there was no supporting intelligence, the paper reported.

``The prime minister . was worried about the way you have expressed the nuclear
issue . can we not go back, on timings, to 'radiological device' in months?''

Lord Hutton, one of Britain's most senior judges, is conducting a probe into the
cir***stances surrounding the death of the scientist, David Kelly. Blair's
popularity has ebbed amid the allegations his office ``***ed up'' evidence to
parliament aimed at winning support for the war.

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