“Speaking before the United Nations [on February 5, 2003], Secretary of State Colin Powell, citing intelligence gathered from an Iraqi source, said that a bin Laden associate ‘had been sent to Iraq several times between 1997 and 2000 for help in acquiring poisons and gasses.’ ” – Richard Miniter, Losing Bin Laden, Page 238 […]
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2/5/2003
Following Secretary of State Colin Powell’s address to the U.N. on February 5, 2003, Vice President Dick “Cheney wanted to give his own speech making the charge [of Iraq seeking yellowcake uranium in Niger]. [CIA Director George] Tenet was upset. …The CIA intelligence does not support the conclusion of Cheney’s proposed speech, he said [to […]
2/5/2003
” ‘I cannot tell you everything that we know,’ he [Secretary of State Colin Powell] began after a brief introduction [in his speech before the U.N Security Council on February 5, 2003]. ‘But what I can share with you, when combined with what all of us have learned over the years, is deeply troubling.’ The […]
2/5/2003
In his address to the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell said: ” ‘There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more. …Saddam Hussein has chemical weapons. …We have more than a decade of proof that Saddam Hussein […]
2/5/2003
By early February [2003], the British were ready to deliver a report to the Americans. [MI6 (British Foreign Intelligence) Chief] Richard Dearlove flew to Washington to present the report to [CIA Director George] Tenet. …The report stated that according to [Iraqi informant and Intelligence Chief Tahir Jalil] Habbush, Saddam had ended his nuclear program in […]
2/5/2003
” ‘We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more,’ [Secretary of State Colin] Powell said in closing [in his speech to the U.N. Security Council on February 5, 2003]. ‘Given Saddam Hussein’s history of aggression, given what we know of his grandiose plans, given […]
2/5/2003
“In [Secretary of State] Colin Powell’s presentation to the United Nations [on February 5, 2003] he said that ‘an eyewitness, an Iraqi chemical engineer [code-named Curveball] actually was present during biological agent production runs. He was also at the site when an accident occurred in 1998. Twelve technicians died from exposure to biological agents.’ But […]
2/5/2003
“On February 5, 2003, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the U.N. Security Council, declaring: ‘Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaida lieutenants.’ …it was the first time the extent of Zarqawi’s network had received public acknowledgement.” […]
2/5/2003
In his address to the U.N. Security Council on February 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell said: ” ‘Saddam Hussein has chemical weapons’ and ‘We know that Iraq has at least seven…mobile, biological agent factories.’ ” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, Page 482 […]
2/5/2003
In his speech before the United Nations on February 5, 2003 in which he cited a need to invade Iraq, Secretary of State Colin Powell said: ” ‘every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we’re giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.’ […]