Powell: Some Iraq testimony based on 'flawed' intelligence [View All]

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Flip-flop, back-tracking, clarification or is bush* mis-administration finally (sort of) admitting they were wrong?or will Powell be the next "disgruntled partisan former official"...

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Powell: Some Iraq testimony based on 'flawed' intelligence
Saturday, April 3, 2004 Posted: 3:56 AM EST (0856 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/04/03/powell.iraq/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has said some of his testimony to the U.N. Security Council weeks before the start of the war in Iraq was apparently based on "flawed sources" and appeared not to be "solid."

Powell's admission came in an off-camera discussion with reporters aboard his flight back to Washington from Brussels Friday evening.

Powell's appearance before the Security Council on February 5, 2003, was a major event in the United States' effort to win international support for the Bush administration contention that war against Iraq was justified because of evidence that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

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Powell Not Sure Iraq Trailers Were Labs
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20040402223609990003&_mpc=news%2e6
BY BARRY SCHWEID, AP

WASHINGTON (April 2) - Secretary of State Colin Powell conceded Friday evidence he presented to the United Nations that two trailers in Iraq were used for weapons of mass destruction may have been wrong.

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David Kay, who led the hunt for the weapons, showed off a pair of trailers for news cameras last summer and argued that the two metal flatbeds were designed for making biological weapons.

But faced with mounting challenges to that theory, Kay conceded in October he could have been wrong. He said he did not know whether Iraq ever had a mobile weapons program.