Australia's Prime Minister John Howard has agreed to launch an independent probe into how Australia's intelligence agencies assessed pre-war reports that Iraq possessed and was prepared to use weapons of mass destruction.
Howard took the step shortly after a bipartisan parliamentary committee issued a report calling for such an inquiry given the absence of any evidence that Baghdad had any banned weapons when it was invaded by US-led forces last March. (Albawaba.com)
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