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US paper apologises for false Iraq reports

The New York Times has admitted that information it published about Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction programme was not supported.
In a letter from its editors entitled The Times and Iraq the paper said its coverage had not been "rigorous". "In some cases, information that was controversial then, and seems questionable now, was insufficiently qualified or allowed to stand unchallenged."
"Looking back, we wish we had been more aggressive in re-examining the claims as new evidence emerged - or failed to emerge."