” ‘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
A British Defense Intelligence Staff (DIS) document, which was leaked in early February 2003, “indicated that British intelligence believed there were no current links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda and that any contact between officials in the Iraqi regime and the al-Qaeda network yielded nothing due to reciprocal mistrust and incompatible ideologies.” [The 5th of […]
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
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 […]
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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.’ ” […]
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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 […]
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
“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
“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
“On February 5, 2003, he [Secretary of State Colin Powell] gave his now-famous performance, wherein he declared that his statements about Iraqi ongoing WMD programs and stockpiles were ‘facts’–and this was a term he personally introduced to his text. …Powell did a fine job presenting a picture that turned out to be wrong. It sounded […]