From the Telegraph:

Iraq yesterday handed the United Nations a 43-volume 11,807-page declaration on its weapons of mass destruction as America reacted with fury to a ruling that it will not be allowed to see the full report. The contents of the document will decide whether Iraq faces war.



Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector, has told the 15 Security Council members that they will be given the report only after sensitive information about weapons manufacture had been removed.

The purged details are expected to be the most sensitive - precisely the information that America most needs to compare with its own intelligence.

Washington believes that the document will provide the trigger for military action as it is certain that Iraq has left out key information. That would put Saddam Hussein's regime in "material breach" of UN resolutions, paving the way for an American-led attack.

A senior US official said that Washington would provide the inspectors with evidence, including some not made public before, that Iraq has retained and accelerated prohibited weapons programmes.



Who the hell gets to "censor" the report before the security council sees it? By what right?