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Watch out for tomorrow's sixty minutes there might
be a very intresting report about Bush's economical plans.
Em
The
Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans
l'anarchie"
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The Damage, so to say, has already been done to
US Intelligence community. To the Outside world the CREDIBILITY of the
US intelligence has been greatly damage so much so that It will
take years to rebuild this credibility
Matek
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Iraq
war a big mistake, says report
Phillip Coorey
New
York
10jan04
US Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday there
was never any concrete evidence Saddam Hussein had ties to
al-Qaida.
The admission followed a damning new report that found Iraq
had ended its weapons of weapons of mass destruction program years ago and
posed no imminent threat.The report, by the Washington-based think-tank
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, says the US intelligence community
was "unduly influenced" by the Bush Administration to make findings consistent
with the Administration's wish to wage war.
Its release coincided with
growing speculation that David Kay, the CIA man who has led the 1400-strong
Iraqi Survey Group in its search for WMDs in Iraq, is on the verge of
quitting.
Washington is also withdrawing 400 members of the team.
The Carnegie think-tank compiled its report after poring over a
pile of declassified US intelligence documents, UN weapons inspections reports
and Bush Administration statements.
Its findings included:
NO
solid evidence of a co-operative relationship between Saddam Hussein's
government and al-Qaida, and no evidence Iraq would have transferred WMDs to
terrorists.
THE US intelligence community overestimated the
chemical and biological weapons in Iraq and was "unduly influenced by
policymakers' views".
IRAQ'S chemical weapons production
capabilities were effectively destroyed by the 1991 Gulf War, the 1998
Operation Desert Fox and UN inspections and sanctions.
THE Bush
Administration misrepresented the threat from Iraq's supposed weapons and
ballistic missile findings.
Report co-author Joseph Cirincone said a
worst-case scenario had been represented as the most likely
case.
"There are no stockpiles of weapons; there hasn't actually been a
find of a single weapon."
Mr Powell went on the defensive
yesterday.
"I have not seen smoking-gun, concrete evidence about the
connection (to terrorist organisations), but I do believe the connections
existed," he said.
Mr Powell said Saddam had possessed and used weapons
of mass destruction as far back as 1988.
"In terms of intention, he
always had it," he said.
"I am confident of what I presented (to the
UN) last year. The intelligence community is confident of the material they
gave me.
"This game is still unfolding."
The report was released
as another nine American soldiers were killed when a Blackhawk medivac
helicopter marked with a red cross was shot down near Fallujah, taking the US
death toll in Iraq to 495.
Everyone aboard the US Army helicopter was
killed in the crash landing.
And 63 personnel had a narrow escape when
their US Air Force C-5 cargo plane was hit by a missile after takeoff from
Baghdad but landed safely.
In the face of sophisticated attacks on US
forces, the Pentagon is sending flocks of unmanned spyplanes and a new unit
formed to deal with deadly explosive devices to Iraq in the biggest rotation
of its forces since World War II.
The US force of more than 120,000 in
Iraq and another 11,000 in Afghanistan will be replaced by fresh soldiers by
the end of May. Emphasis in the new Iraq force will be put on troop mobility,
aerial reconnaissance and more effectively dealing with remote-controlled
bombs.
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