Joseph Wilson, the United States diplomat who opposed the Iraq war, has died aged 69.
Mr Wilson poked holes into the grounds that had been used by President George .W. Bush to launch an attack on Iraq which was then under the leadership of Sadam Hussein.
"I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons programme was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat," he wrote in a column in the New York Times.
Just within days of making his opposition clear, Valerie Plame, the wife of Mr Wilson, was outed as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent.
The couple divorced in 2017.
Valerie Plame confirmed the death of her former husband, describing his as a hero.
She said that Mr Wilson did what he did not out of sympathies to the Democratic Party but because he thought he had a responsibility as a citizen.
"He did it because he felt it was his responsibility as a citizen," she said.
"It was not done out of partisan motivation, despite how it was spun. He had the heart of a lion. He’s an American hero," she added.
Wilson served as an envoy in Africa after the Iraq war in Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe.
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