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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (250949)7/18/2003 7:08:39 AM
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Iraq weapons row official goes missing

By James Blitz and Matthew Jones
Published: July 18 2003 10:05 | Last Updated: July 18 2003 11:34


Police searching for Dr David Kelly, the missing defence official named as the suspected source of allegations that Downing Street "sexed up" intelligence on Iraq have found an unidentified body.


Earlier this week MPs on the foreign affairs committee accused ministers of "poorly treating" Dr Kelly, a Ministry of Defence expert on chemical and biological weapons, after he said he was not the main source of a hotly disputed BBC report.

Dr Kelly had come under intense pressure after admitting that he had met BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan several times, including in a London hotel on the same day as Mr Gilligan says he interviewed the main source for the report.

Thames Valley police said Dr Kelly had gone missing from his home near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, on Thursday afternoon after telling his wife he was going for a walk at 3.00pm. The body of a man had been found on Harrowdown Hill, five miles from Dr Kelly's home at 9.20am on Friday but had not yet been identified.

"This is very early in the investigation and officers are still at the scene. This is clearly a sensitive inquiry and we have no further details at the present time," said a spokesman.

--ugly mess gets uglier--

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