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LONDON (AFP) - The head of Britain's foreign intelligence agency told Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) that the case for war in Iraq (news - web sites) was being "fixed" by Washington to suit US policy, according to a BBC documentary.

MI6 supremo Richard Dearlove briefed Blair and a group of ministers on the United States' determination to launch the invasion nine months before hostilities began in March 2003, the BBC programme will claim on Sunday.

After attending a briefing in Washington, he told the meeting that war was "inevitable", according to The Sunday Times newspaper.

"The facts and intelligence" were being "fixed round the policy" by US President George W. Bushs administration, Dearlove said.