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Caught in the Fallout

The news of the apparent suicide of former UN weapons inspector David Kelly has the British government reeling. Kelly was widely believed to have been BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan's unidentified intelligence source who described a government file on Iraq as "sexed up'' to make a more convincing case for military action. More here and here and here. Is this the beginning of the end for Blair, or the middle of the end? (Via my husband.) Update: More analysis on this from Steve Gilliard in the Daily Kos.