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Published in The Observer (1/02/2004)
Always good to confront yesterday speech to today's
reality. Specially after the resignation of the former chief (David Kay) of the
Iraqi Survey group saying that no WMD will be found...
Pre war allegation:
Iraq possesses 100-500 tonnes of chemical weapons
agents
UN security Council presentation by Colin Powell
(5/02/2003)
Status: Not found
Pre war allegation:
Iraq has hidden warheads containing 'biological
warfare agent... in large groves of palm trees
UN security Council presentation by Colin Powell
(5/02/2003)
Status: Not found
Pre war allegation:
Iraq possesses hidden factory equipped with thousands
of centrifuges to make fissionable material for nuclear weapons
UN security Council presentation by Colin Powell
(5/02/2003)
Status: Not found
Comment: In reality aluminium tubing was almost certainly
for rocket production.
Pre war allegation:
Iraq was trying to procure uranium from Niger to
produce fissionable material for nuclear weapon
President G. W. Bush, State of the Union Address
(28/01/2003)
Status: Not found
Comment: It has subsequently emerged that US
official knew the claim was based on forged documents a year earlier. Although British
Intelligence made the same claim on the basis of independent intelligence to the
fake documents, it has never explained what that was.
Pre war allegation:
Iraq possesses at least 7 mobile laboratories for
producing biological warfare agents
UN security Council presentation by Colin Powell
(5/02/2003)
Status: Not found
Comment:
Two trailers, originally believed to be mobile germ
labs, were found not to fit Powell's description and were described by experts,
including Dr David Kelly, as unsuitable for the production of germ agents
Post war allegation:
The Iraq survey group uncovered 'massive evidence
of a huge system of clandestine laboratories in Iraq
Prime minister Tony Blair speaking to British troops
in December 2003
Status: Not found
Comment:
Blair's claim was dismissed by Coalition Provisional
Authority head Paul Bremer: 'I don't know where those words come from but that
is not what [Iraq Survey Group chief] David Kay has said.'
Pre war allegation:
Iraq has developed unmanned drones capable of
spraying biological or chemical weapons which could be launched at sea against
the U.S.
President G. W. Bush, National Intelligence estimate,
February 2003.
Status: Not found
Comment:
US Airforce Intelligence said the drones were not
intended for germ warfare but for reconnaissance, in a report published six
month earlier.
Pre war allegation:
Iraqi military planning allows for some of the WMD
to be ready within 45 minutes of an order to use them.'
British government dossier on Iraqi WMD, (24/09/2002)
Status: Not found
Comment:
The original intelligence referred to short range
battlefield weapons, although this was not made clear. The head of MI6, Sir
Richard Dearlove, later admitted to Lord Hutton, that the claim was open to
misinterpretation as ' weapon of a longer range