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Blair under pressure on WMD

By Hasan Suroor

LONDON APRIL 20. With the coalition forces having failed to find even a single weapon of mass destruction in Iraq, the Blair Government is under pressure to disclose the evidence it claimed to justify its support to the U.S.-led invasion of Baghdad.

In what is seen as the makings of an anti-Blair backlash, angry Labour MPs have accused his administration of misleading them into backing an ostensibly `illegal' war and called for an inquiry by the Commons' intelligence committee to verify government claims.The backlash is led by Left-wing Labour MPs, who reluctantly voted for the Government's Iraq policy after the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, claimed there was `hard' evidence that Iraq had deadly weapons. They want to see that evidence, and questions are also being raised about the role of intelligence agencies.

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