Tony Blair "intentionally" exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, the Iraq inquiry heard yesterday.
Former diplomat Carne Ross said Britain and the US went to war in 2003 despite knowing that Iraq was not a "substantial threat".
Mr Ross, First Secretary responsible for the Middle East at the UK's mission to the United Nations from 1997 to 2002, told the Chilcot inquiry intelligence was "massaged" into "more robust and terrifying" statements the supposed WMD.
He added: "Throughout my posting... at no point did we have any firm evidence of significant weapons holdings."
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