Regarding the U.S. government’s alleged unilateral redaction of a 12,000 page UN report on Iraq’s WMD capabilities, dated December 7, 2002, James Cusick and Felicity Arbuthnot reported in the December 22, 2002, edition of The Sunday Herald that “Hans von Sponeck, the former assistant secretary general of the UN and the UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Iraq until 2000, charged, ‘This is an outrageous attempt by the U.S. to mislead.’ ”
– Amy Goodman with David Goodman, The Exception to the Rulers, Page 35