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Almost all Iraqi exiles misled U.S., officials say
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Mar 05, 2004 12:58am |
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| Media | Newspaper - San Jose Mercury News |
| News Date | Friday, March 5, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | DEFECTORS HAD ROLE IN DECISION TO INVADE
By Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay
Knight Ridder
WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that almost all of the Iraqi defectors whose information helped make the Bush administration's case against Saddam Hussein exaggerated what they knew, fabricated tales or were ``coached'' by others on what to say.
As probes expand into the intelligence used to justify the war in Iraq, questions are growing about the defectors' role in building the momentum toward last spring's invasion.
Most of the former Iraqi officials were made available to U.S. intelligence agencies by the Iraqi National Congress, a coalition of exile groups with close ties to the Pentagon and Vice President Dick Cheney's office. The INC had lobbied for years for a U.S. military operation to oust Saddam.
The defectors claimed, among other things, that Saddam had built mobile biological weapons facilities, was rapidly rebuilding his nuclear weapons program and had trained Islamist fighters at a camp south of Baghdad.
None of those allegations has been borne out so far. |
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