British MPs call for broad probe after suicide

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London — A judge investigating the suicide of a Defence Ministry weapons adviser should also examine the British government's use of intelligence to justify war with Iraq, opposition MPs said Monday.

Microbiologist David Kelly was the source for a disputed British Broadcasting Corp. report that Prime Minister Tony Blair's office doctored an intelligence dossier on Iraqi weapons to bolster the case for war. On Friday, Dr. Kelly's body was found near his home in central England. One of his wrists had been slashed.

Lord Hutton, one of the Law Lords who form Britain's highest court of appeal, said Monday that his inquiry into the suicide would investigate the "circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. Kelly."

"It will be for me to decide, as I think right within my terms of reference, the matters which should be the subject of my investigation," Judge Hutton said, without elaborating.

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