In Secretary of State Colin Powell’s presentation to the UN on February 5, 2003, in which he claimed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction: “Powell characterized Iraqi-al Qaeda links as ‘potentially more sinister’…’Some believe, some claim these contacts do not amount to much. They say Saddam Hussein’s secular tyranny and al Qaeda’s religious tyranny do […]
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2/5/2003
“At the UN briefing of February 5, 2003, [Secretary of State] Colin Powell had referred to Ansar al-Islam, the group that had carved out a small piece of Kurdistan prior to the war and populated it with their version of jihadists. They had been working on chemical and biological weapons. Videotapes of tests they had […]
2/5/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “Secretary Powell’s presentation to the Security Council.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, Feb. 5, 2003 […]
2/5/2003
Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke to the UN on February 5, 2003, saying Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. ” ‘We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction; he’s determined to make more,’ the secretary said. ‘Should we take the risk that he will not someday use these […]
2/5/2003
“Alan Foley, the director of the CIA’s Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control Center (WIN-PAC), told a former colleague on the day of Secretary of State Colin Powell’s UN presentation in February [5] 2003, that the CIA simply didn’t have the evidence to back up what Powell was saying to the world.” – James Risen, […]
2/5/2003
On February 5, [2003,] Colin Powell gave a speech to the 15 [UN] council members. “He made many claims about the Iraqi threat. These included a strong connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda, the existence of mobile WMD units, and the Iraqi production of cultures of anthrax (a deadly disease). Most of these claims were later […]
2/5/2003
An Iraqi defector named Rafid Ahmed and codenamed ‘Curveball’ claimed, while seeking asylum in Germany, that Iraq was using mobile labs to create WMD. “The United States never got access to Curveball. The testimony he gave to the Germans was filtered secondhand through DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency] and became the core of [Secretary of State […]
2/5/2003
“In a February 5, 2003, interview with Wolf Blitzer, he [Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)] cited the October 2002 death of a U.S. foreign service officer at the hands of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a known al-Qaeda associate who had fled to Iraq from Afghanistan after the Taliban was overthrown. Zarqawi had been linked to a biological […]
2/5/2003
“In November 2002, military lawyers were already expressing reservations about the interrogation techniques proposed for use at Guantánamo. … Major General Jack Rives, the Deputy Judge Advocate General of the United States Air Force, was more pointed in his analysis, and observed that several of the exceptional interrogation techniques ‘on their face, amount[ed] to violations of […]
2/5/2003
Discussing Secretary of State Colin Powell’s February 5, 2003, speech to the UN, which supported going to war with Iraq, then-CIA Director George Tenet wrote: “Our [CIA] goal…was to come up with rhetoric that was both supported by underlying intelligence and worthy of what we all hoped would be a defining moment. Despite our efforts, […]