Defector tells how US officials ‘sexed up’ his fictions to make the case for 2003 invasion
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Curveball: Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all
Posted in CBRNE, Created Terror, Intelligence, Middle East, North America
Also tagged CIA, Iraq, US, WMD
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U.S. Agencies See No Move by Iran to Build a Bomb
Even as the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said in a new report Friday that Iran had accelerated its uranium enrichment program, American intelligence analysts continue to believe that there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb.
Posted in CBRNE, Created Terror, Intelligence, Middle East, North America
Also tagged CIA, Intelligence, Iran, NIE, Nuclear, strategic ambiguity, US, WMD
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Shaming of our spooks: MI6 produced bogus Iraq war evidence under pressure from Downing Street
The exhausted secret intelligence officer was heading home after a heavy session analysing reports from Iraq. As he stepped out through the high-security air-lock exit from MI6’s grand headquarters beside the Thames in London, a newspaper-seller’s placard caught his eye — ‘45 minutes from attack,’ it proclaimed.
Posted in Created Terror, Europe, Intelligence, Middle East, Politics
Also tagged biological weapons, chemical weapons, David Kelly, Iraq, MI6, regime change, UK, WMD
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MI6 and CIA were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD
BBC’s Panorama reveals fresh evidence that agencies dismissed intelligence from Iraqi foreign minister and spy chief