“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 […]
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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 […]
2/4/2003
“On February 4 [2003], [Les, the Defense Department doctor who had examined Curveball] sent an email to the deputy chief of the CIA’s Joint Task Force on Iraq: ‘I do have a concern with the validity of the information based on ‘CURVE BALL.’ He noted there had been…questions about whether ‘in fact, CURVE BALL was […]
2/4/2003
According to information from the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq, delivered on July 7, 2004: “On the day before Secretary of State Colin Powell’s address before the UN Security Council [February 4, 2003]…a [anonymous] military intelligence officer became alarmed that Powell was relying […]
2/3/2003
On February 3, 2003, “When Les, the Defense Department medical doctor and biological weapons specialist detailed to the CIA’s Counterproliferation Division, read a draft of [Secretary of State Colin] Powell’s [upcoming] speech [to the UN Security Council], he was upset. He had gone to Germany in 2000 to draw blood from [Iraqi informant] Curveball [whose […]
2/3/2003
“On February 3, 2003, the White House press spokesman, Ari Fleischer, responded to a question about the president’s [Bush’s] views on the exile of Saddam: ‘Well, as the president said, if Saddam Hussein were to leave Iraq and to take, as the President put it, his henchmen with him, that would be a very desirable […]
2/3/2003
“On February 3 [2003], two days before [Secretary of State Colin] Powell was to go to New York, he sketched out his briefing to the president [Bush] at an NSC [National Security Council] meeting. ‘We have sources for everything,’ Powell confidently told the President. If Powell felt duped or misled about any aspect of his […]