Blair-BBC row deepens in Britain; This week, Prime Minister Blair continued to deny that he inflated claims on Iraq's banned weapons.(WORLD)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: July 10, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Mark Rice-Oxley Special to The Christian Science Monitor

LONDON -- The fighting crackles on in Iraq, but it's in London that the truly bitter hostilities have broken out.

A poisonous row over claims by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that the British government overstated the case for disarming in Iraq has degenerated into open warfare.

The furor, which has lasted longer than the Iraq war itself, is the most antagonistic between a British government and the state-owned broadcaster for a generation, and is beginning to threaten both the reputation of ...

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