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Reporter regrets exposure of Kelly
Washington Times ^ | Thursday, September 18, 2003 | By Jane Wardell

Posted on 09/17/2003 10:53:41 PM PDT by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:08:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

LONDON — A British Broadcasting Corp. reporter who raised concern that the government inflated its case for war against Iraq apologized yesterday for indirectly naming his source to a member of Parliament.

BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan eventually confirmed that his source was David Kelly, a government weapons adviser who apparently killed himself after being identified by the Ministry of Defense as the unidentified official cited in Mr. Gilligan's piece.


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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bbc; davidkelly; wmd
Thursday, September 18, 2003 Quote of the Day by JulieRNR21
1 posted on 09/17/2003 10:53:41 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
"The allegation I intended to make was a spin. I do regret those words ... and I shouldn't have used them," Mr. Gilligan said.

In other words .. HE LIED

2 posted on 09/17/2003 10:58:26 PM PDT by Mo1 (http://www.favewavs.com/wavs/cartoons/spdemocrats.wav)
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To: Mo1
Bingo.
3 posted on 09/17/2003 10:59:41 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
Liberals can always say "oppps slips" and things will be all well again.

Life is just like a game of marbles, or is it?

4 posted on 09/18/2003 12:24:14 AM PDT by TYVets ("An armed society is a polite society." - Robert A. Heinlien & me)
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