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You're wrong bud. I followed it closely at the time. In fact, a forum I was on had a thread dedicated to all the information that came out about it.
His death was reported, obviously, but it was not well covered at all and no journalists dared to question or investigate the context of his death.
The man himself said that he feared for his life and of being suicided. This was never mentioned.
On top of that, his wife was adamant that he did not commit suicide. She pleaded for further investigation but was ignored.
UK papers have archives that are available online. Rather than speculate, go and find the articles. See how many you can find for the two weeks after his death and what they say.
Here's a more recent article...
15 years later
Moz rates it was a a mistake, but when one considers all the factors that lead to invading Iraq, and how many people were involved, it's very difficult to accept that it was carried out purely on the basis of unintentionally bad information.
On a side note, I may have mentioned it here before, but I relatively recently actually met a weapons demolisher that was contracting in Iraq at the time. The guy is an elderly engineer and I have zero reason to suspect he'd lie to me. He says that he often travelled with a group of multi-national weapons inspectors. They would mark any shower they came across, even tattered ones beside sports fields, as a chemical showers. They would count caves that they passed and always have more than 50% of them marked as storing weapons or ammunition...despite hardly ever entering the caves.
The guy does owe me a few favours and if anyone is interested, I could likely persuade him to send me a more detailed email of what he experienced at the time.