1.
Powell relies on FORGED documents to link Saddam to
terror.
MSNBC: "They
have been the closest of allies. But under the intense
pressure of a diplomatic crisis at the United Nations
and an imminent war in Iraq, the friendship between
the United States and Britain is beginning to fray.
The most recent strain emerged when U.N. nuclear inspectors
concluded last week that U.S. and British claims about
Iraq's secret nuclear program were based on forged
documents. The fake letters supposedly laid out how
Iraqi agents had tried to purchase uranium from officials
in Niger, central Africa."
MORE: http://www.msnbc.com/news/883164.asp?cp1=1
CNN:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Intelligence documents that U.S.
and British governments said were strong evidence that
Iraq was developing nuclear weapons have been dismissed
as forgeries by U.N. weapons inspectors.
MORE: http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/14/sprj.irq.documents/index.html
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Sydney
Morning Herald, Australia: The head of the
International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei,
has demonstrated that UK and US intelligence
authorities relied on forged documents to support
assertions that Iraq was trying to buy uranium
in Africa. |
MORE: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/15/1047583740556.html
LA
Times: WASHINGTON -- Phony weapons documents
cited by the United States and Britain as evidence
against Saddam Hussein were initially obtained by
Italian intelligence authorities, who may have been
duped into paying for the forgeries, U.S. officials
said Friday. The documents, which purport to show
Iraqi efforts to acquire uranium from Niger, were
exposed as fraudulent by U.N. weapons inspectors
last week. The matter has embarrassed U.S. and British
officials.
MORE: http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-docs15mar15,0,5016930.story
And
even more:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=africa+uranium+forged+documents
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2.
Bush/Powell's UN "evidence" relies on even
MORE supposedly "up to date" FORGED documents
to link Saddam to terror.
CNN:
Large chunks of the 19-page report -- highlighted by
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell at the U.N. as
a " fine paper ... which describes in exquisite
detail Iraqi deception activities" -- contains
large chunks lifted from other sources, according to
several academics. " The British government's
dossier is 19 pages long and most of pages 6 to 16
are copied directly from that document word for word,
even the grammatical errors and typographical mistakes," Rangwala
said. Al-Marashi's article, published last September,
was based on information obtained at the time of the
1991 Gulf War, Rangwala said. " The information
he was using is 12 years old and he acknowledges this
in his article. The British government, when it transplants
that information into its own dossier, does not make
that acknowledgement. " So it is presented as
current information about Iraq, when really the information
it is using is 12 years old."
MORE: http://asia.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/02/07/sprj.irq.uk.dossier/
UK
Guardian: Downing Street was last night plunged
into acute international embarrassment after it emerged
that large parts of the British government's latest
dossier on Iraq - allegedly based on "intelligence
material" - were taken from published academic
articles, some of them several years old. Amid charges
of "scandalous" plagiarism on the night
when Tony Blair attempted to rally support for the
US-led campaign against Saddam Hussein, Whitehall's
dismay was compounded by the knowledge that the disputed
document was singled out for praise by the US secretary
of state, Colin Powell, in his speech to the UN security
council on Wednesday.
MORE: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,892069,00.html
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,9959,890962,00.html
http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/207939.htm
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3.
Bush/Powell tries to use edited audio-tape to LIE
about Saddam/Bin Laden Connection.
NY
Times: It offered little evidence of an alliance
between Mr. Hussein and Mr. bin Laden, but it did
seem to validate Arab leaders' warnings that Islamic
extremists would exploit any assault on Baghdad to
further inflame the region.
MORE: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/12/international/middleeast/12TAPE.html
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NY
Times: Germany dismissed Wednesday U.S. claims
that a new audiotape purportedly by Osama bin
Laden proved he was in league with Iraq, while
some Muslims were cheered by the possibility
the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks
was still alive.
More: Article
Link |
Philadelphia
Daily News: But if bin Laden was trying to show
personal solidarity with Saddam himself, he had a
strange way of doing so. He denounced Saddam's secular,
socialist al-Baath party as "infidels." What's
more, the statement said that Iraq's rulers had "lost
their credibility long ago" and that "socialists
are infidels wherever they are." He didn't even
mention Saddam by name.
MORE: http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/5157847.htm
Salon.com:
War, lies and audiotape If truth is the first casualty
of war, then this war's second casualty is the credibility
of Colin Powell. Yesterday morning he insisted that
the new tape from Osama bin Laden would show a "partnership" between
al-Qaida and Iraq. He told the nation that he had a
transcript of bin Laden's remarks. Understandably,
however, the secretary of state didn't read from the
transcript he claimed to have in his possession --
because it so clearly contradicted the headlines he
was trying to create.
MORE: http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/02/12/osama/index_np.html
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4.
Bush/Powell LIES again about Saddam's ability to
deliver weapons of mass destruction.
News
Interactive: An Iraqi drone found by UN weapons inspectors
is of "very primitive" design and is definitely
not capable of flying 500km as suggested by US Secretary
of State Colin Powell, Jane's Defence Weekly said today.
On
February 5, Powell told the UN Security Council that
the Iraqis possessed a drone that could fly 500km,
violating UN rules that limit the range of Iraqi weapons
to 150km. " There is no possibility that the design
shown on 12 March has the capability to fly anywhere
near 500 kilometres," drones expert Ken Munson
said on Jane's website (http://jdw.janes.com). " The
design looks very primitive, and the engines -- which
have their pistons exposed -- appear to be low-powered," he
said.
MORE: Article
Link
Originally
from the NY Times: AL TAJI, Iraq -- To hear
senior Bush administration officials tell it, Iraq's
latest pilotless drone has the potential to be one
of Saddam Hussein's deadliest weapons, able to deliver
terrifying payloads of chemical and biological warfare
agents across Iraq's borders to Israel or other neighboring
states. It could even, they say, be broken down and
smuggled into the United States for use in terrorist
attacks. But viewed up close yesterday by reporters
hastened by Iraqi officials to the Ibn Firnas weapons
plant outside Baghdad, the vehicle the Iraqis have
code-named RPV-30A, for remotely piloted vehicle, looked
more like something out of the Rube Goldberg museum
of aeronautical design than anything that could threaten
Iraq's foes. To the layman's eye, the unveiling of
the Iraqi prototype seemed to lend the crisis over
Iraq's weapons an aura less of deadly threat than of
farce.
"In
any case, he and other officials said, the vehicle
could not be controlled from a distance of more than
5 miles, in good weather, since its controllers tracked
it "with the naked eye."
MORE: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/112262_drone13.shtml
Boston
Globe: Duct tape reinforced by aluminum foil
held together the black and white drone's balsa wood
wings. The wooden propellers and tiny engines were
fastened to a well-worn fuselage, fashioned from
the fuel tank of a larger aircraft. The words ''God
is Great'' were hand painted in red ink on both sides.
Perched on a sawhorse at a military research base
20 miles north of Baghdad, the drone looked more
like a large school science project than a vehicle
capable of delivering chemical and biological weapons.
Iraqi officials denied the airplane had any strategic
use.
More: Article
Link
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5.
Bush/Powell LIE about Iraq's Nuclear capabilities
concerning "aluminum tubes":
ABC
News: Before Congress, and in public, President Bush
and Secretary of State Colin Powell have repeatedly
pointed to aluminum tubes imported by Iraq which they
say are for use in making nuclear weapons. But on Friday,
head United Nations nuclear inspector Mohammad ElBaradei
told the Security Council that it wasn't likely that
the tubes were for that use. ElBaradei also said that
documents Bush had cited and relied upon to make the
case that Iraq tried to buy uranium from a country
in central Africa were fake.
More: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/2020/GMA030310Iraq_weapons_evidence.html
Washington
Post: The finding: Iraq had tried to buy thousands
of high-strength aluminum tubes, which Bush said
were "used to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon." But
according to government officials and weapons experts,
the claim now appears to be seriously in doubt. After
weeks of investigation, U.N. weapons inspectors in
Iraq are increasingly confident that the aluminum
tubes were never meant for enriching uranium, according
to officials familiar with the inspection process.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the
U.N.-chartered nuclear watchdog, reported in a Jan.
8 preliminary assessment that the tubes were "not
directly suitable" for uranium enrichment
More: Article
Link |
