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BBC's director general Dyke quits

January 29, 2004 20:08 IST

BBC's Director General Greg Dyke quit on Thursday as the news broadcaster's crisis deepened in the wake of Lord Hutton's verdict on its Iraq dossier report.
 
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BBC chairman Gavyn Davies had resigned on Wednesday.

Dyke said he hoped their departures meant "a line can be drawn under this whole episode."

Lord Hutton's report has cleared the Tony Blair government of "sexing up" its Iraq weapons dossier with unreliable intelligence.

BBC correspondent Andrew Gilligan in a controversial report had said the BBC was aware before going into war with Iraq that there were no weapons of mass destruction in possession of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

 


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