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To: LindyBill who wrote (100550)	6/6/2003 10:54:29 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

LB, Part 1 of 2: The hype that some of the media and others present is amazing re: WMD. See below. This is a sample of some of the articles linked on google news. NOTE WHERE the articles are coming from!!!! Then we will have to look up the writers of such articles and find what other articles they have printed, and the slant of those articles. One has to wonder just how many REAL journalists we have left in the world.....the ones that actually take the news from the breaking wires, and do some digging for themselves to find the truth of the matter..... news.google.com Pentagon 'unable to pinpoint' Iraqi WMD facilities Financial Times (subscription), UK - 44 minutes ago By James Politi and Guy Dinmore in Washington and Christopher,Adams and Mark Huband in London. The head of the Pentagon's Defence ... Defence intelligence unable to pinpoint Iraqi chemical arms ... Channel News Asia, Singapore - 1 hour ago US defence intelligence were unable to pin down any Iraqi facilities or locations where chemical weapons were being stored or produced, according to a secret ... Data didn't back Bush's weapons claims, officials say San Jose Mercury News, CA - 1 hour ago By WARREN P. STROBEL. WASHINGTON - President Bush and his top aides made prewar claims about Iraq's weapons programs that weren't ... Pentagon spy agency adds to doubts on Iraq weapons Daily Telegraph, UK - 2 hours ago By David Rennie in Washington. The row in Washington over whether pre-war intelligence on Iraq was "hyped" intensified yesterday ... Why the spooks are angry International Herald Tribune, France - 2 hours ago NEW YORK On Day 79 of the Search for Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction on Friday, once again nothing turned up. Spooks are spitting ... US Defense Officials: Never Any Doubt About Iraq's WMD Program Voice of America - 2 hours ago A top US defense intelligence official says his agency never had doubts that Iraq had a weapons of mass destruction program, despite news media reports to the ... Pentagon denies WMD doubts BBC, UK - 2 hours ago by Nick Childs. The Pentagon says an intelligence report last September was not meant to raise doubts about the existence of Iraq's ... Pentagon report found 'no reliable evidence' of WMD in Iraq Independent, UK - 2 hours ago By Andrew Buncombe in Washington. A report by the Pentagon's intelligence agency concluded last year there was "no reliable evidence ... US report admits 'no reliable information' of Iraq WMD ABC Online, Australia - 4 hours ago A US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) report has revealed there was "no reliable information" that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction in September last year ... Agency chief clarifies Iraq report MSNBC - 6 hours ago WASHINGTON, June 6 — The Defense Intelligence Agency last fall could not pin down the location of any chemical weapons facilities in Iraq but had no doubt ... DIA had no info on Iraq WMD News24, South Africa - 7 hours ago Washington - The Defense Intelligence Agency reported before the war with Iraq it had "no reliable information" that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons ... Defense Analysts Had No Hard Evidence on Iraqi Weapons Voice of America - 7 hours ago The US Defense Department has confirmed that its own analysts reported last year that they had no reliable information that Iraq had chemical weapons. ... Iraq: US Intelligence On Weapons Questioned Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - 7 hours ago Washington, 6 June 2003 (RFE/RL) - The US Defense Department's intelligence service is said to have reported last September that it had no reliable evidence ... Pentagon Admits Intelligence Reports Found 'No Reliable ... Voice of America - 7 hours ago The Pentagon now acknowledges its own intelligence agency reported last year having "no reliable information" that Iraq had chemical weapons, one of the main ... Sept. Report Couldn't Locate Iraq Weapons Guardian, UK - 8 hours ago By ROBERT BURNS. WASHINGTON (AP) - The Defense Intelligence Agency last fall could not pin down the location of any chemical weapons ... US 'doubted Iraq's arsenal' BBC, UK - 9 hours ago A leaked US intelligence report has cast fresh doubt on the coalition claims that Iraq had banned weapons which served as justification for going to war. ... Report finds analysts unsure about Iraq banned weapons CNN - 9 hours ago A US Army soldier from the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment waves back at children while on patrol in Sadr, east of Baghdad. CNN's Ben ... Pentagon's intelligence service reported no reliable evidence of ... San Francisco Chronicle, CA - 11 hours ago The Pentagon's intelligence service reported last September that it had no reliable evidence that Iraq had chemical agents in weaponized form, officials said ... Blix pours doubts on weapons reports icWales, UK - 11 hours ago The intelligence services on both sides of the Atlantic came under intense scrutiny after UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix questioned the reliability of ... US Secret Report Raises Questions Over Iraqi Weapons Reuters, UK - 11 hours ago By Sue Pleming. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the Bush administration was pushing last fall for a war against Iraq because of alleged ... Pre-war Pentagon report drew blank on Iraqi chemical weapons Ananova, UK - 11 hours ago A pre-war Pentagon intelligence report concluded there was "no reliable information" that Iraq had chemical weapons, it has emerged. ... Australia stands its ground Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 12 hours ago By Tom Allard. The tone was defiant when Australia's defence intelligence chiefs went before a Senate estimates committee this week. ... Cloaks and Daggers New York Times - 21 hours ago On Day 78 of the Search for Iraqi WMD, yesterday, once again nothing turned up. Spooks are spitting mad at the way their work was ... Downer raises new weapons fears Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - Jun 4, 2003 By Tom Allard, Foreign Affairs Writer. There are fears in the intelligence community that materials used to make chemical and biological ... US ‘ lacked weapons data before war ’ IrishExaminer.com, Ireland - 1 hour ago By Sue Pleming, Washington. AS the Bush administration was pushing last autumn for a war against Iraq because of alleged weapons ... REPORT'S NEW WEAPONS DOUBT Glasgow Daily Record, UK - 2 hours ago It emerged a US intelligence report had found "no reliable information" that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction. ... Warner Seeks Release of Pentagon Iraq Weapons Report (Update1) Bloomberg - 3 hours ago June 6 (Bloomberg) -- US Senator John Warner, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, asked the Defense Department to declassify an intelligence report from ... US official: No doubts about Iraq WMD Washington Times, DC - 4 hours ago WASHINGTON, June 6 (UPI) -- A top administration official said Friday that a federal report does not conflict with the case that Iraq had weapons of mass ... US Had No " Reliable " Info On Iraq ’ s WMDs : Pentagon Islam Online, UK - 6 hours ago WASHINGTON, June 6 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – As the administration was making the case for waging war against Iraq over its alleged possession of ... Pentagon report: No evidence of chemical weapons News 9 San Antonio, TX - 8 hours ago WASHINGTON -- A Pentagon report is raising more questions about whether the United States overplayed the threat of weapons from Iraq before the war. ...

To: LindyBill who wrote (100550)	6/6/2003 10:57:34 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 281500

LB, Part 2 of 2: This article 3 hours old re WMD...Warner Seeks Release of Pentagon Iraq Weapons Report (Update 1) Updates: June 06 at: 22:04 EST NY.... 2003 KLP Note: There seem to be so many who in their haste to condemn the President and Administration for going into Iraq, and that CAN'T wait to bash without knowing the FULL facts, that one just simply has to wonder why. This article says that our Government will publish the entire content, rather than a snippet, that some wish to believe and have others believe..... Personally, I am happy to have the Government Senate committees investigate the entire ME situation....AND hopefully, woe be unto the Senator that leaks confidential material. quote.bloomberg.com June 6 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Senator John Warner, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, asked the Defense Department to declassify an intelligence report from September 2002 that said there was ``no reliable information'' proving Iraq had chemical weapons. Pentagon officials said published excerpts from the report, prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency, were taken out of context. ``I think clarification is in the interest of all,'' Warner told reporters in Washington after his committee met privately for three hours with Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Stephen Cambone, undersecretary of defense for intelligence. Warner, a Republican, said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld agreed it was ``important'' to release the full report. A summary page from the report said, ``There is no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons, or whether Iraq has -- or will -- establish its chemical warfare agent production facilities.'' Bloomberg News published a story quoting the excerpt today. The US News & World Report disclosed the existence of the report and quoted part of the excerpt in the magazine's June 9 issue. Cable News Network also aired reports about the analysis today. War Rationale The excerpt is ``a single sentence lifted out of a longer planning document,'' said Jacoby, who met with reporters along with Warner. ``It is not in any way intended to portray the fact that we had doubts that such a program existed, that such a program was active, that such a program was part of the Iraqi WMD infrastructure,'' Jacoby said, referring to weapons of mass destruction. U.S. and U.K. officials cited the existence of such weapons as a rationale for attacking Iraq in March. No weapons have been found, and lawmakers in both countries are demanding to know if pre-war intelligence reports were shoddy or were embellished. President George W. Bush, Rumsfeld and other U.S. officials say the weapons will be found after the allies locate people from Saddam Hussein's defeated regime who know where the arms are hidden. Some officials, including Rumsfeld, have said Hussein may have shipped weapons out of Iraq or destroyed them. Last Updated: June 6, 2003 18:26 EDT Print