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(From Agence France Presse)
US Secretary of State Colin Powell will give the UN Security Council damning electronic evidence that Iraq has repeatedly lied to UN weapons inspectors.
In response to demands for hard evidence to justify military action, the US administration has decided to release what experts call some of "the most jealously guarded of all US intelligence secrets," Newsweek magazine said.
The electronic intercepts made by the National Security Council (NSC) "prove that Iraq has repeadedly lied to UN inspectors, plotted among themselves about how to conceal weapons meaterial and even appeared to boast afterward about their success," Newsweek quoted officials as saying.
The declassification of the intelligence to allow Powell to present it to the United Nations was called "extraordinary" because the government is "normally loath to even refer to their existence for fear of tipping off targets and drying up invaluable sources of information," said the magazine's Internet edition.
But in this case "the intercepts are so damning and dramatic that officials say their release outweighs the potential harm, ...