[Swprograms] Greg Dyke blasts Blair government

[Ricky Leong <rleong@xxxxxxx>]

Ex-head of BBC blasts Blair on Iraq
'We were all duped,' Greg Dyke writes in a blistering attack on the British PM

By ELIZABETH RENZETTI
From Monday's Globe and Mail

London -- The BBC continued to make news rather than merely report it as its 
former director launched a bitter attack on Prime Minister Tony Blair and its 
new chief tried to lay out a fresh course for the world's largest public 
broadcaster.
In excerpts from his memoir published in The Observer newspaper yesterday, 
former BBC director-general Greg Dyke accused the Blair government of 
deliberately misleading the British public leading up to the war in Iraq, and 
said that staff at Downing Street had decided the public broadcaster "was the 
enemy."
Blair "was either incompetent ... or he lied" when he told the House of Commons 
about Iraq's destructive capabilities prior to the war, Dyke writes.
At the heart of the battle between Downing Street and the BBC was a report by 
Andrew Gilligan in May of 2003 that suggested the government had "sexed up" a 
dossier to bolster its claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

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MORE HERE:   http://tinyurl.com/4md6n
or on the front page of today's Review section if you have a paper copy.

Cheers,
Ricky Leong
Montreal

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