INC VINDICATED BY WMD REPORT Iraqi National Congress Press Statement BAGHDAD (31 March, 2005): The Iraqi National Congress had a "negligible impact" on US intelligence assessments of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction according to the Robb-Silverman Report issued today.
Dr. Ahmad Chalabi of the INC said, "We welcome this report as a vindication of the INC. We have consistently stated that the INC played a very small role in US intelligence reporting on Saddam's WMDs and the report proves that." Page 108 of the Robb-Silverman Report states: "In fact, over all, CIA's post-war investigations revealed that INC-related sources had a minimal impact on pre-war assessments." Dr Chalabi stated, "The Report also vindicates our position that we only provided two defectors to the US intelligence community. We dispute the allegation that the INC 'directed' a defector to lie as the CIA charges." Page 108: "Reporting from these two INC sources had a "negligible" impact on the overall assessments, however." Dr Chalabi said, "We have consistently denied that we were associated with the defector known as Curveball and the report conclusively proves that. Major media organizations like Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times owe us an apology for printing lies about us." Page 108: "Despite speculation that Curveball was encouraged to lie by the Iraqi National Congress (INC), the CIA's post-war investigations were unable to uncover any evidence that the INC or any other organization was directing Curveball to feed misleading information to the Intelligence Community. Instead, the post-war investigations concluded that Curveball's reporting was not influenced by, controlled by, or connected to, the INC." Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
