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Bush meets former chief weapons inspector

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US President George W. Bush met with David Kay, the former weapons inspector, at the White House on Monday soon after he told reporters he will create an "independent, bipartisan" panel to probe failures on Iraq intelligence after consulting Kay.

Bush summoned Kay to the White House for lunch to hear directlyfrom the former chief weapons inspector about he has learned as the former head of the Iraq Survey Group, White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters.

"It is important that the commission's work is done in a way where it doesn't become involved in partisan politics," he said.

McClellan said the commission will take a broad look at US intelligence capabilities, particularly relating to the dangerousnew threat the United States faces from weapons of mass destruction and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Bush has been under mounting political pressure after Kay, who resigned late last month, said that Iraq possessed no stockpiles of biological or chemical weapons before the US-led war on Iraq early last year.

Lawmakers from both the Republican and Democratic parties said the country's credibility is being undermined by uncertainty over flawed intelligence that led the US war in Iraq, and wanted the Bush administration to create an independent panel to look into the intelligence failures.

Source: Xinhua

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