As Iraqi civilians continue to endure deadly attacks, the US and British prewar effort to justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq is coming under new scrutiny. A British parliamentarian is now claiming the US and Britain based one of its claims about Iraq’s nonexistent weapons of mass destruction on the hearsay testimony of an Iraqi taxi driver. The taxi driver is said to have recounted a conservation he claimed to have overheard between Iraqi officials two years earlier. Citing British intelligence officials, the parliamentarian, Adam Holloway, says the taxi driver’s claims became the basis for US and British “intelligence” that Saddam Hussein could deploy chemical or biological weapons within forty-five minutes.