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Polish parliament to investigate blunder over missiles found in Iraq WARSAW (AFP) Oct 07, 2003 The Polish parliament will open an investigation into an embarrassing diplomatic incident in which the defense ministry mistakenly claimed that its troops had discovered a recent batch of French missiles in Iraq, a senior parliamentarian said Tuesday. "The joint defense and foreign affairs committees will investigate to determine who is responsible for this incident," said Stanislaw Janas, head of the parliamentary defense committee, speaking on public radio. "The information had a bomb effect," said Pawel Piskorski, member of the foreign affairs committee. "Its release without...