In his speech to the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell said: ” ‘One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq’s biological weapons is the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological agents. …Let me take you inside […]
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2/5/2003
“In his presentation to the UN Security Council on February 5 [2003], Secretary of State Colin Powell failed to produce any compelling proof that Baghdad was even remotely connected to the 9/11 attacks. Powell pointed to a suspected al Qaeda terror camp located near Kurdish-held northern Iraq. Contending that the facility trained al Qaeda operatives […]
2/5/2003
In his address to the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell played National Security Agency intercepts of Iraqi military personnel. One intercept ” ‘shows a captain in the Second Corps of the Republican Guard being ordered by a colonel to ‘remove the expression *nerve agents* from wireless instructions.’ ” […]
2/5/2003
In making his presentation to the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell said: ” ‘When [the inspectors] searched the home of an Iraqi nuclear scientist, they uncovered roughly 2,000 pages of documents. …Some of the material is classified and related to Iraq’s nuclear program. Tell me, answer me: Are […]
2/5/2003
In his address to the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell said: ” ‘Saddam Hussein has investigated dozens of biological agents, causing diseases such as gas gangrene, plague, typhus, tetanus, cholera, camel pox, and hemorrhagic fever. And he also has the wherewithal to develop smallpox.’ Then he warned, ‘One […]
2/5/2003
Secretary of State Colin Powell’s speech to the UN of February 5, 2003, “also made a great deal of [al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-] Zarqawi’s alleged connection to the radical Kurdish jihadist group, Ansar al Islam, but later analysis has shown few ties with this group or its base camp in Kurdistan. […]
2/5/2003
“In his February 5, 2003, speech to the UN Security Council, [Secretary of State Colin] Powell said: ‘Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network, headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda lieutenants. Zarqawi, a Palestinian born in Jordan, fought in the Afghan War more than […]
2/5/2003
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 […]
2/5/2003
“Working from a draft prepared by [Vice President Dick] Cheney’s office, [Secretary of State] Colin Powell made the tubes [made of anodized aluminum, which Iraq was supposedly attempting to acquire to use for uranium enrichment] a centerpiece of his speech in the UN Security Council on Feb. 5, 2003, ridiculing the notion that anyone would […]
2/5/2003
Secretary of State Colin “Powell was set to go before the United Nations on February 5, 2003, to make the WMD intelligence case for war, and [Vice President Dick] Cheney wanted him to look at the argument his chief of staff, Scooter Libby, had assembled charging a link between Saddam and al Qaeda. Powell…refused to […]