After being held in a floating prison in the Indian Ocean, alleged al Qaeda leader Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi “was sent to Egypt for additional interrogation to extract a confession. Under torture, he gave a statement that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons and provided training to al Qaeda. …In his address to the UN Security Council in February [5] 2003, Secretary of State [Colin] Powell quoted at length from the ‘confession’ anonymously to make his case for the invasion of Iraq, even though, in a secret report, the CIA had concluded that the information was unreliable.”
– Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Page 80