http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1263901,00.html
Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by
Tony Blair that '400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves'
is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered.
The claims by Blair in November and December of last year, were given
widespread credence, quoted by MPs and widely published, including in
the introduction to a US government pamphlet on Iraq's mass graves.
In that publication - Iraq's Legacy of Terror: Mass Graves produced
by USAID, the US government aid distribution agency, Blair is quoted
from 20 November last year: 'We've already discovered, just so far,
the remains of 400,000 people in mass graves.'
Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by
Tony Blair that '400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves'
is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered.
The claims by Blair in November and December of last year, were given
widespread credence, quoted by MPs and widely published, including in
the introduction to a US government pamphlet on Iraq's mass graves.
In that publication - Iraq's Legacy of Terror: Mass Graves produced
by USAID, the US government aid distribution agency, Blair is quoted
from 20 November last year: 'We've already discovered, just so far,
the remains of 400,000 people in mass graves.'