![]() When Gilligan reported this on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he stated that the 45 minute claim was included at the insistence of Alastair Campbell, the Downing Street Director of Communications-Kelly denied that he said Campbell had forced in the reference. During his time with UNMOVIC he was key in uncovering the anthrax production programme at the Salman Pak facility, and a BW programme run at Al Hakum.Ī year after the publication of the 2002 dossier on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction-which stated that some of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons were deployable within 45 minutes-Kelly had an off-the-record conversation with Andrew Gilligan, a BBC journalist, about the claim. He also worked with UNSCOM's successor, the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and led several of their missions into Iraq. He was appointed to the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) in 1991 as one of its chief weapons inspectors in Iraq and led ten of the organisation's missions between May 1991 and December 1998. A former head of the Defence Microbiology Division working at Porton Down, Kelly was part of a joint US-UK team that inspected civilian biotechnology facilities in Russia in the early 1990s and concluded they were running a covert and illegal BW programme. ![]() ![]() Specialist in biological warfare UN weapons inspector in Iraqĭavid Christopher Kelly CMG ( – 17 July 2003) was a Welsh scientist and authority on biological warfare (BW). ![]()
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