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The Report of the Iraq Inquiry 305.  Mr Blair also described a “threat of chaos and disorder” arising from “tyrannical regimes with weapons of mass destruction and extreme terrorist groups” prepared to use them.

306.  Mr Blair set out his concerns about:

307.  Those two threats had very different motives and different origins. He accepted “fully” that the association between the two was:

308.  Later in his speech, Mr Blair stated that the threat which Saddam Hussein’s arsenal posed:

309.  This fusion of long‑standing concerns about proliferation with the post‑9/11 concerns about mass‑casualty terrorism was at the heart of the Government’s case for taking action at this time against Iraq.

310.  The UK assessment of Iraq’s capabilities set out in Section 4 of the Report shows: