Secret Iraq WMD dossier published

Last Modified: 18 Feb 2008
By: Channel 4 News

Read the Foreign Office's publication of John Williams's 2002 draft dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction here.

After being ordered to disclose an early draft of the controversial dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in January, the Foreign Office has published the document today.

The government had argued against the document's release on the grounds that its release would not be in the public interest. But the Information Tribunal rejected the appeal, stating that it "might be capable of adding to the public's understanding of the issues in question".

Read the dossier

Click here to open a PDF of John Williams's 2002 draft of the Iraq Dossier on WMDs.

The draft was prepared in 2002 by the then Foreign Office press secretary John Williams.

The draft was not given to the Hutton inquiry and so the Tribunal ruled that any questions the draft might have raised would not have been addressed therein:

"Information has been placed before us, which was not before Lord Hutton, which may lead to questions as to whether the Williams draft in fact played a greater part in influencing the drafting of the dossier than has previously been supposed."

The initial Freedom of Information request was submitted by campaigner Chris Ames in February 2005.