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Iraq War intelligence dispute | Iraq War intelligence controversy | Rationale for the Iraq War

Contents 1 Background 2 Resignations 3 Disquiet within the Intelligence community 3.1 Leaks 4 Disputed intelligence 4.1 Biological 4.1.1 Mobile weapons laboratories 4.2 Chemical 4.2.1 45 minute claim 4.3 Nuclear 4.3.1 Aluminum tubes 4.3.2 Uranium from Africa 4.4 Conventional 4.4.1 Unmanned aerial vehicles 4.5 Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda 4.5.1 Ansar al-Islam 4.5.1.1 Wood Green ricin plot 4.5.2 Mohamed Atta in Prague 4.5.3 Terrorist training 5 Misc statements 6 See also 7 References

[edit] Background

Regime change (U.S. policy) / 1991 statements

[edit] Resignations

• Brady Kiesling resigned from the State Department, in a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell... "we have not seen such systematic distortion of intelligence, such systematic manipulation of American opinion, since the war in Vietnam." [1] [2] Several other career foreign service officials resigned in the weeks after Kiesling stepped down.
• Robin Cook: "...Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the term..."

[edit] Disquiet within the Intelligence community

[edit] Leaks

[edit] Disputed intelligence

[edit] Biological

[edit] Mobile weapons laboratories

Main article: Mobile weapons laboratory

[edit] Chemical

[edit] 45 minute claim

[edit] Nuclear

[edit] Aluminum tubes

Main article: Iraqi aluminum tubes

[edit] Uranium from Africa

Main article: Niger uranium forgeries

[edit] Conventional

[edit] Unmanned aerial vehicles

In October, 2002, a few days before the U.S. Senate vote on the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution, about 75 senators were told in closed session that Saddam Hussein had the means of delivering biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction by UAV drones that could be launched from ships off the Atlantic coast to attack U.S. eastern seaboard cities. Colin Powell suggested in his presentation to the United Nations that they had been transported out of Iraq and could be launched against the U.S. Actually, Iraq had no fleet of UAVs nor any capability of putting UAVs on ships. Neither did Iraq have any chemical weapons. ^[1] Iraq's UAV fleet consisted of only a few outdated Czech training drones.^[2] At the time, there was a vigorous dispute within the intelligence community as to whether CIA's conclusions about Iraqi UAVs were accurate. The U.S. Air Force agency most familiar with UAVs denied outright that Iraq possessed any offensive UAV capability.^[3]

[edit] Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda

Main article: Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda

[edit] Ansar al-Islam

[edit] Wood Green ricin plot

[edit] Mohamed Atta in Prague

Main article: Atta in Prague

• Dick Cheney: "...it's been pretty well confirmed..." [3]

[edit] Terrorist training

• Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi
• Salman Pak facility

[edit] Misc statements

• Greg Thielmann Faith-based intelligence; "This Administration has had a faith-based intelligence attitude," Thielmann has said. "We know the answers--give us the intelligence to support those answers."

• Hans Blix, "...if this is the best, what about the rest..."
• "...garbage after garbage after garbage..." [4] [5]

• VIPS Veteran Intelligence Professionals For Sanity, a national organization of retired CIA, military and NSA intelligence officers who called into question the Administration's rationale for war

[edit] See also

• Iraq Liberation Act
• Iraq National Congress
• Office of Special Plans
• Stovepiping

• Karen Kwiatkowski
• Downing Street memo

[edit] References