Hans Blix

Department of "Huh?"

Hans Blix's appearance before the Chilcott Inquiry has been covered a number of ways, but most media chose to highlight Blix's scepticism about the existence of WMD in Iraq and his belief that an invasion required a second UN resolution to make it legal under international law.  

Britain's Daily Mail follows that general line, and opens with: 

Tony Blair was told by Hans Blix one month before the Iraq War that he was unlikely to ever find weapons of mass destruction.

How to explain, then, the apparently opposite interpretation of Blix's testimony by the Financial Times, expressed in the headline:

Blix told Blair Iraq may have illegal weapons