Powell: Iraq Evidence May Have Been Wrong
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BY BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) has
conceded that evidence he presented to the United Nations (news - web
sites) that two trailers in Iraq (news - web sites) were used for
weapons of mass destruction may have been wrong.

In an airborne news conference on the way home from NATO (news - web
sites) talks in Brussels, Belgium, Powell said Friday he had been given
solid information about the trailers that he told the Security Council
in February 2003 were designed for making biological weapons. But now,
Powell said, "it appears not to be the case that it was that solid."

He said he hoped the intelligence commission appointed by President Bush
(news - web sites) to investigate prewar intelligence on Iraq "will look
into these matters to see whether or not the intelligence agency had a
basis for the confidence that they placed in the intelligence at that time."

Powell's dramatic case to the Security Council that Iraq had secret
arsenals of weapons of mass destruction failed to persuade th

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