I don't think there is any credibility left for these INC defectors. Everything they have said has been shown to be unreliable. Do you have one shred of information from the defectors that turned out to be true? No you don't...because they were practicing deception:
The information included a claim by an INC-supplied defector, Adnan Ihsan al-Haideri, that he had visited 20 secret nuclear-, biological- and chemical-warfare facilities in Iraq.
Haideri's claim first appeared in a Dec. 20, 2001, article in The New York Times and then in a White House background paper, "A Decade of Deception and Defiance," released in conjunction with a Sept. 12, 2002, speech to the U.N. General Assembly by Bush.
Haideri, however, showed deception in a CIA-administered lie detector test three days before The New York Times article appeared, and was unable to identify a single illicit arms facility when he accompanied U.S. weapons inspectors to Iraq in January 2004.
The White House background paper also cited INC-produced defectors' claims that Saddam ran a terrorist training camp outside Baghdad in Salman Pak where Iraqi and non-Iraqi Islamic extremists were schooled in assassination, sabotage, and the hijacking of aircraft and trains.
After the war, U.S. officials determined that a facility in Salman Pak was used to train Iraqi anti-terrorist commandos.
seattletimes.nwsource.com
When unreliable sources say things, were much better off turning a deaf ear to them. In the case of INC defectors, our own CIA has said they were liars.
If your only evidence is the defector's word, then I'd say your evidence is flawed. I put more faith in the US investigators than the Iraqi defectors.
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