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Powell backtracks on Iraqi mobile biological labs.(Insider Report)
Secretary of State Colin Powell recently conceded that the evidence that Saddam Hussein had mobile biological labs may have been wrong. Powell had presented the evidence as solid during a dramatic presentation to the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003.
During an April 2 airborne news conference en route to Washington, a reporter referred back to Powell's UN speech and indicated that "in recent weeks it has emerged that one of those intelligence sources you cited [about the mobile labs] was flagged as unreliable by U.S. intelligence and another source had never been interviewed by U.S. officials and ... we didn't even know his name...." "So, in light of that," the reporter asked, "was this really the best intelligence the U.S. could have put forward at the time?" Powell responded:
It was presented to me in the preparation of that as the best information and intelligence that we had. And I looked at the four elements that they gave me for that one and they stood behind them. Now it appears not to be the case, that it was that solid. But at the time that I was preparing that presentation it was presented to me as being solid. Now, the commission that is going to be starting its work ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Powell backtracks on Iraqi mobile biological labs.(Insider Report)