The Independent: US lied to Britain over use of napalm in Iraq war
Despite persistent rumours of injuries among Iraqis consistent with the use of incendiary weapons such as napalm, Adam Ingram, the Defence minister, assured Labour MPs in January that US forces had not used a new generation of incendiary weapons, codenamed MK77, in Iraq.
But Mr Ingram admitted to the Labour MP Harry Cohen in a private letter obtained by The Independent that he had inadvertently misled Parliament because he had been misinformed by the US. “The US confirmed to my officials that they had not used MK77s in Iraq at any time and this was the basis of my response to you,” he told Mr Cohen. “I regret to say that I have since discovered that this is not the case and must now correct the position.”
Posted on June 17th, 2005 at 3:50 pm
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” I have since discovered that this is not the case ”
for a value of “since” that = “some while before the election”
“and must now correct the position”
for a value of “now” that = “some while after the election”.