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| | Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Kay implores US to admit mistakes in Iraq |
 | | Kay's comments came as the White House sought to fend off accusations from its former antiterrorism chief, Richard Clarke, who said President Bush ignored the Al Qaeda threat before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and focused on Iraq, rather than on the Islamic militant group, afterward. |
 | | Kay resigned in January, saying that he believed no such weapons existed and that the failure to find them raised serious questions about the quality of prewar intelligence. |
 | | Kay, who had a role in United Nations weapons probes in Iraq in the early 1990s, said US intelligence there was poor in the decade before the war, relying entirely on international inspectors, Iraqi defectors, or intelligence from allies such as France and Britain. |
| www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/03/23/kay_implores_us_to_admit_mistakes_in_iraq (360 words) |
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