9/7/2002

“Early in September [7] 2002, President Bush declared that satellite photographs of new construction at Al Furat, Iraq’s former site for uranium enrichment by centrifuge, showed that the country’s nuclear bomb program had been resurrected. ‘I don’t know what more evidence we need,’ he said. But he would, in fact, need more. The Iraqis immediately invited the press to Al Furat, and dozens of journalists visiting the site under Iraqi escort saw no centrifuges. Subsequent reports by the U.S. and UK make no further mention of the photos.”

 – Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq, Page 230