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To: LindyBill who wrote (2680)	6/26/2003 6:53:30 AM
From: RinConRon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793914

As usual Foggy Bottom marches to their own in house drummer. Stories - Reuters NYT: State Dept. Unit Challenges Iraq Trailer Story Thu Jun 26, 1:52 AM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! NEW YORK (Reuters) - The State Department's intelligence unit has challenged a determination by the CIA (news - web sites) that mobile trailers found in Iraq (news - web sites) were intended for making biological weapons, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The newspaper quoted U.S. government officials as saying a classified June 2 memo from the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research stated that it was too early to decide the trailers were proof Iraq had a program for making biological weapons. The Bush administration cited an allegedly imminent threat from Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs as the primary reason to launch war against Iraq in March. U.S. teams searching for banned weapons in Iraq since Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s government was toppled have not found any conclusive evidence of chemical or biological weapons, prompting critics to suggest that U.S. and British intelligence exaggerated reports on the subject. The Pentagon (news - web sites) has denied it slanted intelligence findings on alleged Iraqi weapons to support the Bush administration's case for war. The CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency issued a May 28 report asserting that two of the truck-trailers found in Iraq were "ingeniously simple" biological weapons factories. On May 30, President Bush (news - web sites) pointed to the discovery of the trailers and said on Polish television that the United States had "found the weapons of mass destruction" it was searching for. Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites), who used diagrams of similar trailers as suspected mobile weapons labs when making the case for war in a speech to the United Nations (news - web sites), echoed Bush's statements on May 31. Powell said the discovery of the trailers bore out the accuracy of the United States' pre-war assessments linking them to a biological weapons program in Iraq.