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Intelligence linking iraq intentionally misled says DIA

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US intelligence on Iraq-Qaeda ties 'intentionally misleading' - document
11.06.2005, 07:08 PM

WASHINGTON (AFX) - US military intelligence warned the Bush administration as early as February 2002 that the key source of information on Al-Qaeda's relationship with Iraq provided 'intentionally misleading' data, according to a declassified report made public.

Nevertheless, eight months later, President George W Bush went public with charges that the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein had trained members of Osama bin Laden's terror network in manufacturing deadly poisons and gases.

These same accusations had found their way in February 2003 into then-secretary of state Colin Powell's speech before the UN Security Council, in which he outlined the US rationale for military action against Iraq.

'This newly declassified information provides additional, dramatic evidence that the administration's pre-war statements were deceptive,' said Democrat Carl Levin, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who pushed for partial declassification of the Defense Intelligence Agency document.

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