THE US administration was never told of doubts about the 
    secret intelligence used to justify war with Iraq, former 
    secretary of state Colin Powell told the BBC in an 
    interview to be broadcast on Sunday night.

    Mr Powell, who argued the case for military action 
    against Saddam Hussein in the UN in 2003, told BBC News 
    24 television he was "deeply disappointed in what the 
    intelligence community had presented to me and to the 
    rest of us."

    "What really upset me more than anything else was that 
    there were people in the intelligence community that had 
    doubts about some of this sourcing, but those doubts 
    never surfaced to us," he said.