“On September 25 [2002], [National Security Advisor] Condoleezza Rice appeared on PBS’s NewsHour and said the Iraqi tyrant [Saddam Hussein] was supplying ‘training to al-Qaeda in chemical weapons development.’ ” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 119 […]
9/25/2002
Tyler Drumheller, Chief of the Directorate of Operations’ European Division, met with the Washington station chief of Germany’s BND (Federal Intelligence Service) in late September 2002. He raised questions about ‘Curveball,’ the Iraqi defector who “had become the primary basis for one of the [Bush] administration’s most significant claims: that Iraq had built a fleet […]
9/24/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “113. In his statement to Parliament on 24 September 2002, Mr Blair presented Iraq’s past, current and potential future capabilities as evidence of the severity of the potential threat from Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction; and that at some point in the future that […]
9/24/2002
“[I]n his preface to a report of September [24] 2002, [U.K.] Prime Minister [Tony] Blair advocated [weapons] inspection first [before invasion, in Iraq]. He wrote that ‘the inspectors must be allowed back in and to do their job properly; and that if he [Saddam] refuses, or if he makes it impossible for them to do […]
9/24/2002
On September 24, 2002, “a crucial British intelligence dossier was made public. It stated that Iraq had reconstituted its nuclear weapons program, and that it would be able to produce nuclear weapons within one or two years if fissile material and other key components could be obtained. This ‘September Dossier,’ as it came to be […]
9/24/2002
On September 24, 2002, “the British published a fifty-page, fourteen-point report on Iraq’s pursuit of weapons that said, ‘There is intelligence that Iraq has sought the supply of significant quantities of uranium from Africa.’ ” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 259 […]
9/24/2002
President “Bush fanned the fires tying Saddam to Osama. ‘The danger is, is that al-Qaeda becomes an extension of Saddam’s madness and his hatred and his capacity to extend weapons of mass destruction around the world,’ Bush told reporters that day [September 24, 2002]. ‘I can’t distinguish between the two, because they’re both equally as […]
9/24/2002
“Iraq’s WMD program was ‘active, detailed and growing,’ [U.K.] Prime Minister [Tony] Blair told Parliament on September 24 [2002]. Saddam Hussein had ‘existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes,’ Blair said, and ‘he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability.’ ” […]
9/24/2002
“The [U.K. Prime Minister Tony] Blair government’s dossier published on September 24, 2002, claimed, ‘Iraq had sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.’ The then White House spokesman Ari Fleischer suddenly asserted, ‘We agree with their findings.’ ” – Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone, Page 216 […]
9/24/2002
A British government assessment of Iraq on September 24, 2002, claimed, “Saddam Hussein had usable chemical and biological weapons capability, which included ‘recent production of chemical and biological agents.’ He had shells, bombs, sprayers, and ballistic missiles to deliver these weapons. And the Iraqi military was ‘able to deploy [them] within 45 minutes of a […]