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07/09/2004:

"Blix made last-minute plea to Blair on Iraq"

Former U.N. arms inspector Hans Blix pleaded with Prime Minister Tony Blair for more time to find weapons of mass destruction before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the Financial Times reports.

"I told Mr Blair that while I could not completely exclude the possibility of the existence of WMD, I was not impressed by the evidence so far," Blix told Friday's paper in an interview.

"Blair told me that all the intelligence agencies around the world agreed with the British and the U.S. that there were. He was genuinely convinced."

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