“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 […]
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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.’ […]
2/5/2003
“In early February 2003, just days after alleging links between Saddam and al Qaeda, U.S. intelligence officials began warning citizens that bin Laden’s network might be in possession of ‘dirty bombs’ encased in radioactive waste.” [The 5th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 437 […]
2/5/2003
” ‘My colleagues,’ he [Secretary of State Colin Powell] told the United Nations Security Council [on February 5, 2003], ‘every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we are giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.’ ” – Craig Unger, The Fall of […]
2/5/2003
In Secretary of State Colin Powell’s speech to the United Nations on February 5, 2003, he said: ” ‘Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction.’ …The danger was not merely Saddam’s arsenal, Powell said, but the ‘sinister nexus between Iraq and the al-Qaeda terrorist network.’ ” […]
2/5/2003
In his February 5, 2003, presentation to the UN Security Council, Secretary of State Colin Powell “pointed to a suspected al Qaeda terror camp located near Kurdish-held northern Iraq. Contending that the facility trained al Qaeda operatives to carry out attacks with explosives and poisons, Powell insisted that there was a ‘sinister nexus between Iraq […]
2/5/2003
Secretary of State Colin “Powell spoke of ‘decades-long experience with respect to ties between Iraq and al Qaeda,’ in his February 5, 2003, presentation at the UN Security Council. ‘Going back to the early and mid-1990s when bin Laden was based in Sudan, an al Qaeda source tells us that Saddam and bin Laden reached […]
2/5/2003
“On Wednesday, February 5 [2003], just after 7 am, several hours before [Secretary of State Colin] Powell’s UN presentation was scheduled, [President] Bush met with 20 key members of Congress in the Cabinet Room of the White House. ‘Many of you have heard this before…There’s more information that we’re not certain of.’ He left the […]