"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Here's a short and now out of date list of the lies of Bush and his
administration about one subject...WMD:

We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized
Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the
dictator tells us he does not have.

George W. Bush
Radio Address
February 8, 2003


Iraqi officer admits to be source of 45-minute WMD attack claim: paper

www.chinaview.cn 2003-12-07 18:31:33


LONDON, Dec. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- An Iraqi military officer has
admitted that he was the source of the claim on Iraq's alleged weapons of
mass destruction attack that led to a British scientist's apparent suicide,
the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported.

According to the paper, Lt. Col. al-Dabbagh, who commanded a
front-line unit during the build-up to the US-led war against Iraq,has
revealed how he passed top secret information to British intelligence
warning that the Iraqi former regime had deployed weapons of mass
destruction (WMD) that could be used on the battlefield against coalition
troops in less than 45 minutes.

"I am the one responsible for providing this information," the
40-year old former head of an Iraqi air defense unit in the western desert,
told the paper in an exclusive interview.

The paper said al-Dabbagh, who is now working as an adviser to
Iraq's Governing Council, also insisted that the information related to
Iraq's battlefield WMD capability was correct.

"It is 100 percent accurate," al-Dabbagh said, adding local
commanders were told that they could use the weapons only on the personal
orders of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

He said he believed that the alleged banned weapons have been
hidden at secret locations and still in Iraq, a claim that comes against the
backdrop that the coalition forces have been combing Iraq in search of the
alleged WMD since March without any success.

On the paper's report, a spokeswoman for British Prime
MinisterTony Blair said Downing Street was not prepared to comment but it
urged all those involved to provide the Iraq Survey Group with whatever
information they believe they have.

The British government published a dossier on Iraq's banned
weapons last September, including the claim that Iraq could deploychemical
or biological weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so.

David Kelly, a weapons expert of the British Ministry of Defense,
apparently committed suicide in July after being identified as the source
for a BBC report that accused the government of "sexing up" the dossier to
make a stronger case for the US-led Iraq war.

Kelly's death led to a judicial inquiry by senior judge Lord
Hutton that has questioned the government's use of intelligence inthe run-up
to the Iraq war.

During the inquiry led by Hutton, who was expected to publish his
report early next year, Richard Dearlove, head of the British secret service
MI6, said that the information contained in the intelligence dossier
relating to the 45-minute claim had come froma single "established and
reliable" source serving in the Iraqi armed forces.



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