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Episode 447 - Further Down the David Kelly Rabbit Hole

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The Death of Dr. David Kelly

Dr. David Kelly was a UN weapons inspector and served as its chief weapons inspector in Iraq leading 10 missions to that country between May of 1991 and December of 1998. He had been outed as a source for a BBC report by Andrew Gilligan about the UK government's sexed up dossier, used to justify or at least in part to justify the Iraq war. The claim that Saddam Hussein was a not only holder of biological weapons that amounted to weapons of mass destruction, but that he could deploy them in 45 minutes became a point of contention. Dr. Kelly got brought in to the proceedings that were going on, Grilling Gilligan, and then they started grilling him.

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