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Titolo: MI6 and CIA were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/18/panorama-iraq-fresh-wmd-claims
 
 
MI6 and CIA were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD
BBC's Panorama reveals fresh evidence that agencies dismissed 
intelligence from Iraqi foreign minister and spy chief
 
Richard Norton-Taylor
guardian.co.uk
, Monday 18 March 2013 06.00 GMT
 
Tony Blair's claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are 
challenged again in Monday's Panorama.
 
Fresh evidence is revealed today about how MI6 and the CIA were told 
through secret channels by Saddam Hussein's foreign minister and his 
head of intelligence that Iraq had no active weapons of mass destruction.
 
Tony Blair told parliament before the war that intelligence showed 
Iraq's nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programme was "active", 
"growing" and "up and running".
 
A special BBC Panorama programme tonight will reveal how British and US 
intelligence agencies were informed by top sources months before the 
invasion that Iraq had no active WMD programme, and that the information 
was not passed to subsequent inquiries.
 
It describes how Naji Sabri, Saddam's foreign minister, told the CIA's 
station chief in Paris at the time, Bill Murray, through an intermediary 
that Iraq had "virtually nothing" in terms of WMD.
 
Sabri said in a statement that the Panorama story was "totally fabricated".
 
However, Panorama confirms that three months before the war an MI6 
officer met Iraq's head of intelligence, Tahir Habbush al-Tikriti, who 
also said that Saddam had no active WMD. The meeting in the Jordanian 
capital, Amman, took place days before the British government published 
its now widely discredited Iraqi weapons dossier in September 2002.
 
Lord Butler, the former cabinet secretary who led an inquiry into the 
use of intelligence in the runup to the invasion of Iraq, tells the 
programme that he was not told about Sabri's comments, and that he 
should have been.
 
Butler says of the use of intelligence: "There were ways in which people 
were misled or misled themselves at all stages."
 
When it was suggested to him that the body that probably felt most 
misled of all was the British public, Butler replied: "Yes, I think 
they're, they're, they got every reason think that."
 
The programme shows how the then chief of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, 
responded to information from Iraqi sources later acknowledged to be 
unreliable.
 
One unidentified MI6 officer has told the Chilcot inquiry that at one 
stage information was "being torn off the teleprinter and rushed across 
to Number 10".
 
Another said it was "wishful thinking… [that] promised the crock of gold 
at the end of the rainbow".
 
The programme says that MI6 stood by claims that Iraq was buying uranium 
from Niger, though these were dismissed by other intelligence agencies, 
including the French.
 
It also shows how claims by Iraqis were treated seriously by elements in 
MI6 and the CIA even after they were exposed as fabricated including 
claims, notably about alleged mobile biological warfare containers, made 
by Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, a German source codenamed Curveball. He 
admitted to the Guardian in 2011 that all the information he gave to the 
west was fabricated.
 
Panorama says it asked for an interview with Blair but he said he was 
"too busy".
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 Percio' i luridi senzapalle si stanno vendicando sui palestinesi.
 
Beh, di sicuro l'igiene non è il loro forte
 
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 E' roba abbastanza
 
Il Guardian supportato da Arteh. Oggi le comiche.


Eh si, in effetti se lo dicevano loro non c'erano dubbi...
 
Carlo "Jurassic Park" 
 

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Non lo dicevano solo loro.
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 Non lo dicevano solo loro.
 
La notizia del Guardian però è che lo dicevano loro.
 
Carlo "Jurassic Park" 
 


Il lurido ubriaco non ha capito niente: tutto nella norma.
 
Carlo "Jurassic Park" 
 


 
Sto coglione qua era per l'invasione e la sopressione del tiranno.
 
Fa proprio schifo quando posta, peggio degli italiani sono solo i britt, 
quanto a falsita'.