Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War
Musings On Iraq review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War
Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy
Musings On Iraq review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary
Musings On Iraq review The Road to Iraq, The Making of a Neoconservative War
Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes, The Inner Workings of a Tyrant’s Regime 1978-2001
Musings On Iraq review State of War, The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception
Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War
Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs
1959
Iraq created Iraqi Nuclear Energy Committee
1960
Iraq signed deal with USSR for two research reactors
1963
Construction on Tuwaitha nuclear reactor facility began
1968
Construction of Tuwaitha nuclear reactor facility finished
1974
Strategic Planning Committee created consisting of Saddam Hussein, Defense Minister Adnan
Khairallah and Adnan al-Hamdani Started development of WMD and nuclear program
Iraq worked with Palestinian owned Arab Projects and Development to recruit technicians and
scientists and buy equipment for WMD program
Nov Izzat al-Duri signed deal with France’s Institut Metrieux to set up bacteriological lab
1975
Strategic Planning Committee decided to develop poison gas also decided to build nuclear
bomb by 1985
April Iraq asked to buy advanced equipment for its nuclear program from Soviets Moscow
said no
September Saddam said that getting French nuclear reactor was first step towards building an
Arab bomb
Nov 17 France-Iraq nuclear deal France would provide enriched uranium build a reactor and
power station called Osirak in Iraq
1976
Jan Pfaulder presented plans for pesticide plant Company didn't know it was going to be used
to make WMD agents Deal eventually fell apart but not before Iraq got plans for plant which was built
Iraq went to Britain’s Imperial Chemical Industries and Babcock and Wilcox to build pesticide
plant to make WMD compounds Imperial Chemical Industries pulled out over suspicion of Iraq’s intentions and told MI6
1979
Saddam negotiated secret 10-year nuclear cooperation deal with Brazil
Iraq’s first chemical weapons facility opened in Akashat, Anbar
Mar 27 Saddam told Baath meeting that Iraq was going to get a nuclear weapon with help
of Soviets so he could go to war with Israel Said having a nuclear bomb would allow a conventional war of attrition with Israel that could cost 50,000 Iraqi casualties
April Italy’s Snia Techint agreed to sell 4 nuclear labs to Iraq that would allow it to extract
plutonium from spent reactor fuel
April 2 reactors heading for Iraq were sabotaged by Mossad in France
Apr 6 Israeli agents sabotaged Osirak nuclear reactor while it was in France waiting to
be shipped to Iraq
1980
Jun 14 Mossad assassinated Egyptian nuclear scientist Yaha al-Meshad in Paris who worked
On Iraq’s nuclear program
Jul 1 shipment of uranium arrived for Iraq’s nuclear reactor Saddam told Iraq could
Produce weapons grade material for a nuclear bomb in one year
Sep 30 Iranian air force launched Operation Scorch Sword attacking Iraq’s Osirak
nuclear facility Only caused minimal damage
1981
Mar 18 US senator told press Iraq was trying to build a nuclear bomb
Jun 7 Israel bombed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor at Tuwaitha to stop Saddam’s
bomb program Destroyed facility
Jun 8 Iraq’s Defense Min launched Project 922 crash program to develop mustard gas and later tabun
sarin and VX gas
Aug 12 Iran made first claim Iraq used poison gas in war
Nov 12 UN Resolution 36/27 again criticized Israel’s destruction of Osirak nuclear reactor and
said Israel should pay for damages
1982
Apr 27 French delegation returned to Iraq to help work on its Osirak nuclear reactor
they had left after Iranian bombing of reactor in 1980
Jul 13 Iraq used tear gas to turn back Iranian attacks
(Musings On Iraq review of Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin)
Jul 14 Iraqi 3rd Corps counterattacked began against Iran Op Ramadan in Basra Used tear gas
(Musings On Iraq review of Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin)
Oct 2 2nd attack in Iranian Op Muslim ibn Aqil between Qasr e-Shirin and Sumer to threaten
Baghdad Iraq used tear gas 1st time to try to turn back Iranian human wave attacks Saddam went to front to urge on troops because Iranian attack could threaten Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
(Musings On Iraq review Armies of the Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin)
1983
Apr 12 Iraq said it would start using new weapons for 1st time meaning WMD in war
(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)
Apr 14 Iraqi High Command warned Iran that had new modern weapons and would use
them for first time in war Meant new WMD capabilities
(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)
Nov 1 Sec of State Schultz told Iraq using chemical weapons almost every day in Iran-Iraq War
Nov 3 Iran made first accusation to UN that Iraq used chemical weapons in war
(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin)
Nov 4 US intel report Iraq used chemical weapons against Iran
Nov 6 Iranian Op Wa al-Farj 4 Made 2nd major attack Seized Penjwin KDPI HQ and moved
towards Sulaymaniya Was stopped by Iraqi counterattack using mustard gas 1st use of chemical weapons in war
1984
Feb 21 Iraqi Gen Rashid said that every harmful insect had an insecticide that could annihilate it Said
Iraq possessed this kind of insecticide Warning that Iraq would use WMD vs Iran
Feb 22 Iranian Op Kheibar began to capture Majnoon island in Basra Renewed attack in Op Al Fajr
6 in Maysan Iraq used mustard gas and tabun on Iranian attack
Feb 24 CIA memo to Dir Casey said Iraq would probably use nerve agents vs Iran
Feb 25 Iraqis used mustard gas against Iranians to try to turn them back in southern marshes
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin)
Mar 3 US stopped company from selling products to Iraq that could be used for chemical
weapons
Mar 4 US objected to Iraq’s use of WMD for 1st time in Iran-Iraq War Iraq denied it used any
Mar 4 Iraqi general quoted as saying that Iraq had right to use chemical weapons against
Iran to defend itself
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin)
Mar 7 Iraqis used mustard gas against Iranians to try to turn them back in southern marshes
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin)
Mar 8 UN sent team to Iraq to investigate Baghdad’s use of chemical weapons against Iran
Mar 9 Iraqis used mustard gas against Iranians to try to turn them back in southern marshes
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin)
Mar 11 Report Iraq had 3 poison gas plants producing chemical weapons for Iran-Iraq
War
Mar 13 UN team arrived in Iraq to investigate use of chemical weapons while Iran
made new claims its forces hit with mustard gas in Manjoon Islands Saw patients suffering from mustard gas Forensic tests on Iraqi bombs found mustard gas and tabun nerve gas
Mar 13 CIA predicted Iraq would use mustard gas on large scale vs Iran by summer 1984
Mar 15 Tariq Aziz deputy Kittani went to US Met with Undersecretary of State Eagleburger Sec of
State Schultz joined meeting Said US criticism of WMD part of longstanding policy against it but shouldn’t be taken as anti-Iraqi
Mar 17 Belgian labs confirmed mustard gas used by Iraq from samples taken from two wounded
Iranians Iraq used tabun for first time against Iran
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin)
Mar 23 CIA confirmed Iraq used nerve agents against Iran
Mar 29 US intel found Iraq buying equipment from West German company to make
chemical weapons W. Germany denied story Reported Iraq had 5 sites producing chemical weapons for Iran-Iraq War
(Musings On Iraq When The World Remembered It Armed The New Hitler Saddam)
Mar 30 UN condemned use of chemical weapons in Iran-Iraq War but didn’t mention
Iraq as perpetrator
Mar 30 US banned export of 5 chemicals to Iraq that could be used to make chemical
Weapons
(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)
Apr 6 Report UK firms sold agents to Iraq to make mustard gas and sarin
Apr 15 State Dept said that Iraq stopped using chemical weapons in Iran-Iraq War
after U.S. warning in 1983 but started again in Feb 1984
May 9 State Dept memo said that new pro-Iraq policy could lead to export of dual
use equipment for Baghdad’s nuclear program
1985
Mar 12 Iraq started using chemical weapons against Iran’s Op Badr over next 4 weeks
Iran claimed it suffered 4,600 casualties as a result
Mar 25 US intel reports Iraq used chemical weapons in fighting in southern Iraq
Apr 30 State Dept intel reported no evidence Iraq had started on a nuclear weapons
program It had
Jul 1 Defense Dept official said that US should watch technology exports to Iraq
because they could be used for its nuclear weapons program
1986
Feb 13 Report around 2,000 Iranian troops suffered mustard gas burns in Fao Peninsula
from Iraqi attacks
Feb 19 US condemned Iraq’s use of chemical weapons against Iran in Fao Peninsula
in Basra Iran-Iraq War
Feb 21 Iraq fired poison gas shells at Iranians in Fao Peninsula Bad weather dissipated
effects
Mar 14 UN mission found that Iraq had used chemical weapons several times in Iran-Iraq
War
Mar 20 US condemned Iraq at UN for violating international law by using chemical
weapons in Iran-Iraq War
Jul 15 UK Official told Geneva conference that Iraq chemical weapons had caused
10,000 Iranian casualties in Iran-Iraq War
Aug 31 Document said chemical and biological agents were being distributed in Irbil to be used
against Kurds
1987
Apr 15 Iraq attacked KDP HQ in Zewa Shkan, Dohuk PUK HQs in Sergalou and Bergalou,
Sulaymaniya with chemical weapons WMD attacks were retaliation for KDP and PUK helping with Iranian offensives
Apr 16 Iraqi planes dropped poison gas on Sheikh Wasan and Balisan villages killing
over 100 civilians
Apr 20 Iraq agreed to allow UN team to visit and investigate its use of chemical weapons
May 13 UN investigation said Iraq used chemical weapons against Iranian civilians
1988
Mar 2 1988 Bush told Iraq that it could buy dual use equipment for its WMD program from US
Mar 16 Iraqi forces dropped mustard and nerve gas on Halabja killing 5,000 Kurds to
recapture town from Peshmerga and Iranian Revolutionary Guard
Mar 22 Qara Dagh, Sulaymaniya hit with chemical artillery shells as start of 2nd Anfal
Campaign
Mar 31 Iran claimed 44,000 of its troops suffered from Iraqi chemical attacks
Apr 16 Iraq offensive to recapture Fao Peninsula Basra from Iran began Largest
Iraq land offensive since 1986 Used mustard and nerve gas
Apr 18 Iraq recaptured Fao Peninsula, Basra using chemical weapons
May 25 Iraq using chemical weapons pushed Iran out of Shalmache bridgehead in Basra
Jul 1 Iraq For Min Aziz admitted that Baghdad used chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq
War but said Iran started using them first
Aug 23 UN said that Iraq used poison gas in attack on Oshnaviyeh, Iran on Aug 2 that wounded
around 2,600 civilians 7th time UN documented Iraq using WMD in war
Sep 16 Report Belgian and US companies sold chemicals to Iraq used in WMD program West
Germany helped build plants used for WMD Durng Iran-Iraq War Western govts tried to set up export restrictions to stop their companies selling agents to Iraq that could be used for WMD but too many were dual use to be effective
(Musings On Iraq When The World Remembered It Armed The New Hitler Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin)
Sep 17 Hussein Kamal wrote letter saying only way to deal with Israel was through WMD
Oct 3 Report in 1975 Iraq contracted US company to build pesticide plant in Samarra Wanted to use
it to work on 4 agents close to nerve gas Company got worried and never finished plant 1980s WGerman company finished plant Produced nerve gas and tabun US believed Iraq wanted WMD to counter Israel
(Musings On Iraq When The World Remembered It Armed The New Hitler Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin)
1989
Jan 17 US report said Iraq was working on typhoid cholera anthrax for its chemical
weapons program
Mar 31 Israel said Iraq embarked on crash course to build a nuclear bomb and a missile
to deliver it
Apr 17 US Energy Dept official presented findings in memo to Energy Sec Watkins Said Iraq
tried to build nuclear bomb Already had know how Was trying to get tech form US Wanted Energy Sec Watkins to bring up issue with Sec State Baker and Natl Sec Adv Scowcroft Memo never given to Watkins because deemed to alarming
May 11 US Energy Dept official wrote 2nd memo Said his warnings about Iraq’s nuclear
program being ignored Said Iraq had know how to build bomb Trying to buy US tech for program
Sep 9 Saddam’s half-brother Barzan wrote Saddam Said Iraq needed to get a nuclear bomb as quickly
as possible to deter Iran and Israel
1990
Mar 28 US-UK officials seized equipment at Heathrow Airport meant for nuclear triggers
Mar 30 Report Iraq trying to challenge Israeli military superiority in Middle East by developing
nuclear bomb Dec 89 Iraq launched new long range missile Mar 90 3 people arrested in England trying to smuggle equipment for program to Iraq Intl Institute for Strategic Studies said program only in theoretical stage Was actually far more advanced than anyone knew
Apr 4 Report Iraq working on nuclear bomb Importing equipment from western companies 1984
ex-Italian intel officers indicted for trying to sell plutonium and yellowcake to Iraq 1987 France offered to rebuild Osirak nuclear reactor 1985-88 Iraq might have built isotope plant Saudis said to be funding program
Apr 9 Report Bush admin told Congress against sanctioning Iraq for WMD and nuclear bomb
programs
Apr 12 5 US senators visited Baghdad to criticize Iraq over its WMD and nuclear programs that
Congress was investigating Privately US Senators told Saddam Pres Bush wanted better relations with Iraq
Apr 18 Iraq test fired missile with chemical warhead
May 8 Saddam claimed Iraq could build high tech capacitors for use in nuclear triggers
Jul 20 Israel’s Def Min Arens and Mossad Dir Shavit warned Def Sec Cheney and CIA Dir Webster
that Iraq was trying to buy nuclear weapons tech Said Iraq was threat to Israel Saudi Arabia Kuwait
Aug 9 Iraqi Amb to Greece said Iraq would use chemical weapons if it was attacked by US or
Israel
Aug 18 Hussein Kamil met with nuclear scientist Jafar Told him with war pending with US
over Kuwait Iraq needed to use semi-enriched uranium it possessed to make a bomb Kamil wanted it finished by Feb 91
Oct 2 Report German companies built facilities and provided agents for Iraq’s WMD
program in 1980s Germany denied it helped with weapons Iraqi front companies bought equipment in Europe
(Musings On Iraq When The World Remembered It Armed The New Hitler Saddam)
Nov 9 UK intel report said Iraq had weaponized anthrax and plague and could use them at any
time Was based upon single source with reliability not established
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
Nov 26 Report 1984 Germany companies helped build WMD plant and equip it 1985 German
company built nerve gas plant in Fallujah Another built plant in Samarra 1987 Companies sent technicians to Iraq to help with agents for WMD Berlin warned about companies but did nothing
(Musings On Iraq When The World Remembered It Armed The New Hitler Saddam)
Dec 1 Saddam ordered deployment of Iraq’s biological weapons
Dec 23 Report 1980 Iraq began setting up network of front companies to buy equipment for
nuclear bomb program Main focus building centrifuges to produce uranium Program suffered setbacks
Dec 23 Iraq distributed WMD to five locations
1991
Jan 9 Secretary of State Baker warned Iraq not use to use WMD in upcoming Gulf War
Jan 28 Saddam told CNN Iraq would be admired for its fighting spirit Iraq could use WMD
but hoped it wouldn’t go that far Said Iraq would win war
Jan 29 Report more than 100 German and western companies were providing nuclear know how to
Iraq right up to Jan 91 80s German company built WMD plants Swedish Austrian Italian French companies helped with missile program Iraq worked with Argentina on long range missile with help from German companies
(Musings On Iraq When The World Remembered It Armed The New Hitler Saddam)
Feb 11 Report Iraq bought $2 bil in weapons after end of Iran-Iraq War US encouraged allies to sell
weapons to Iraq German company sent technicians to help Iraq’s nuke program Germany also provided 90% of chemical weapons capabilities
(Musings On Iraq When The World Remembered It Armed The New Hitler Saddam)
Feb 17 Report 1986-91 US sold $1.5 bil in goods to Iraq Some went to WMD program Dual use
equipment Pentagon stopped Commerce Dept allowed to be sold US intel reported on German companies helping Iraq with WMD Reagan admin kept info quiet to support Iraq in Iran-Iraq War
Fmr US amb to Iraq Wilsey created US-Iraq Business Forum in 1985 Lobbied Congress not to impose sanctions on Iraq for Halabja
Mar 7 Iraqi officials asked for WMD to put down rebellion in Najaf
Mar 7 Bush Admin warned Iraq not to use WMD against Shiite and Kurdish uprisings after
Gulf War
Apr 3 UN Resolution 687 said Iraq had to destroy its WMD and long range missiles Iraq had to
make a declaration on its WMD and nuclear programs by 4/17/91 UN Secretary General would create a weapons inspection commission by 5/17/19
Apr 27 Iraq made declaration of its nuclear program to UN inspectors but was hiding
most of it
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
Jul 7 Iraq Foreign Min Hussein told UN that it would make a declaration of its
nuclear program Hussein said Iraq had not violated Non-Proliferation Treaty or IAEA safeguards
Jul 7 Iraq’s Concealment committee met Decided to reveal details about nuke program
after inspectors found site Concealment committee decided to secretly destroy WMD programs and materials to hide them from inspectors Would prove long term problem because Iraq could never fully prove what it destroyed and what it was hiding to inspectors
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
Jul 11 UK intel report said Iraq had tried 4 methods to enrich uranium for its nuclear
program and might have made enough for 1 bomb
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
Jul 11 Pres Bush said that coup vs Saddam might be best way to assure that Iraq didn’t
continue with its nuclear weapons program
Aug 7 Inspectors interviewed nuclear scientist Jafar who admitted to weaponization of nuclear
program
Oct 15 Report UN inspectors said Iraq worked on hydrogen bomb before Gulf War Found program
more advanced than previously thought Iraq could’ve had bomb in a year
Nov 25 Report US companies sold Iraq equipment for nuke triggers 1984-90 US approved $25 mil
in computer sales to Iraq that helped nuke program EEurope helped Iraqi scientists with nuke research Yugoslavia built uranium enrichment lab in Baghdad Got uranium from Brazil Portugal Niger Germany Italy France Soviet Union Poland and Czechoslovakia provided explosives for program
1992
Jan 20 Report UN inspectors found equipment to build 2,000 centrifuges German and Austria
companies sold parts for program Iraqi scientists said Saddam wanted nuclear bomb to compete with Israel
(Musings On Iraq When The World Remembered It Armed The New Hitler Saddam)
Jul 22 Report Sep 89 CIA told Sec Sate Baker Iraq working on nuclear bomb Bush admin did not put
any limits on tech going to Iraq that could help with program because policy was to improve relations Oct 89 Baker told Iraq’s Foreign Min admin would not put any export controls on tech sold to Iraq Nov 89 Baker played leading role in approving $1 bil in food aid to Iraq Some of that money used for weapons
1993
Feb 24 CIA Dir Woolsey told Senate Iraq’s biological weapons was greatest concern Iraq had
advanced program before Gulf War and hadn’t been degraded by war or inspectors
1994
Jan 17 US fired 45 cruise missiles at Zafaraniya factory Baghdad claiming it was nuclear facility
Sep 8 UK intel report said that it didn’t think Iraq had declared all of its chemical weapons
programs
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
Oct 17 Iraqi defector Saadi claimed he went to Jordan with Mukhabarat to buy nuke material from
Russians for a bomb
1995
Jan 25 Saddam discussed how Iraq had created a deterrent to protect every Arab capital
from Israel with WMD
Mar 25 Iraq told UN inspectors it had produced 550lbs of VX but denied weaponizing it to try to
end US complaints and end sanctions Backfired as Security Council decided to continue them
Jul 1 Iraq told UN inspectors it had a biological weapons program and made anthrax and
botulinum 1989-90 Denied it weaponized agents Seemed like Iraq had come clean about all of its WMD and nuclear weapons programs to inspectors
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
Aug 8 Iraq claimed Hussein Kamil responsible for hiding weapons programs from UN
inspectors after he defected to Jordan
Aug 8 Iraq admitted that it weaponized biological weapons to UN inspectors
Aug 8 Hussein Kamil’s defection undermined Iraq’s program to hide its WMD and
nuclear programs from UN inspectors
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
Aug 17 Iraq told inspectors after 1991 Kuwait invasion Iraq had placed biological weapons
into 166 bombs and 25 missile warheads
Aug 20 Iraq admitted to UN inspectors that its crash program to build a nuclear bomb
failed
Aug 22 UN interviewed Hussein Kamil Saddam’s son-in-law that defected to Jordan Kamil said
Iraq hid its WMD and nuclear program from inspectors but all the programs had ended after Gulf War US and UN didn’t believe Kamil’s claim that the programs were over Kamil did convince them that Iraq would always hide them
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
Aug 24 UK intelligence report said Iraq had hidden much of its nuclear program
destroyed its SCUDs and didn’t have a hidden chemical stockpile
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
Sep 7 UN inspectors said Iraq admitted to producing 8,500 liters of anthrax, 19,000 liters
of botulinum more than they had declared before Iraq also started a crash program in August 1990 to make a nuclear bomb within a year but didn't have triggers
1996
Jun 12 UK intel report worried that Iraq still hiding parts of missile and WMD programs
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
1997
Sep 3 UK intel report said Iraq was still hiding parts of its biological weapons program
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
1998
Feb 4 Blair govt talked about how dangerous Saddam was due to his WMD capabilities
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Feb 4 UK intel report said UN inspectors had destroyed majority of Iraq’s WMD programs
Feb 17 Clinton told Pentagon US had to stop Iraq from getting WMD and nuclear weapons
Mar 1 Pres Clinton called Saddam was a predator who the US would not allow to have
WMD
Apr 7 IAEA told UN Iraq not carrying out any prohibited nuclear activities at sites it
had visited
Apr 13 IAEA report to UN Iraq provided full and complete record of its nuclear program
and showed no new activity
Jun 3 Inspector report to UN Iraq not accounted for missiles warheads VX amounts of
ingredients and final products made from them Russia France China refused to approve the report
Jun 18 Inspectors report to UN Said Iraq not come clean on VX program 1st denied it
worked with it Then said produced experimental amount that was destroyed Iraq later admitted it produced 1.7 tons of VX but didn’t weaponize it
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
Jul 4 IAEA report to UN Iraq did not have nuclear weapons Iraqi scientists had not given
complete access IAEA would focus upon long term monitoring
Jul 18 UN inspectors went to Iraq Air Force HQ Found document showing Iraqis used
mustard gas tabun sarin gas gangrene during Iran-Iraq War in larger quantities than Iraq had previously disclosed Iraqis refused to let inspectors keep the document
Sep 20 UK intel report said Iraq probably still had biological weapons program
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
Nov 4 NSC counterterrorism director Clarke sent memo to National Security Adviser Berger saying
Iraq WMD experts were at Sudan factory probably working with Al Qaeda
Nov 4 NY indictment claimed Al Qaeda-Iraq had agreement not to work vs Saddam and to
cooperate on weapons Was based on intel that Al Qaeda and Iraq were working on weapons together in Sudan Charges on Al Qaeda-Iraq cooperation were later dropped in indictment
1999
Jan 5 UN weapons inspector report said Iraq had not accounted for 550 mustard gas artillery
rounds These unaccounted for stocks would become a major argument by the Bush White House that Iraq was hiding its WMD
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
Jan 23 NSC counterterrorism dir Clarke said US was right to bomb factory in Sudan
because connected to Al Qaeda and Iraq WMD experts
February US intelligence assessment said Iraq had personnel and equipment to continue with
its WMD programs
July US intelligence assessment said Iraq might have restarted its WMD programs but no reliable
reports Said without UN inspectors program would be expanded
August US intelligence assessment said Iraq had continued with its WMD programs after Gulf
War and restarted them after inspectors left
2000
Apr 19 UK intel report said Iraq was continuing with its WMD program Said had an active
biological program and was looking into building mobile labs based upon info from CURVEBALL defector in Germany Admitted couldn’t confirm anything since UN inspectors left in 1998
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 4.1 Iraq WMD Assessments, Pre-July 2002)
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
Jun 12 Saddam speech implied that if others in MidEast had WMD Iraq would have them too Later
told FBI interrogator he gave speech to warn Iran not to attack Iraq Said Iraq had to deal with threat from Iran and Israel so had to act like Iraq still had WMD
December US intelligence assessment US received new intelligence from Iraqi defector
CURVEBALL held in Germany that Iraq had 7 mobile WMD labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Dec 1 UK Intel report Iraq had expanded its activity since inspectors left and speculated it was
producing WMD again Little evidence of a nuclear program Reports that Iraq went to Niger to buy uranium
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 4.1 Iraq WMD Assessments, Pre-July 2002)
2001
Jan 1 Break-in at Niger embassy in Rome to provide cover for how Italian intel
broker Martino got fake Iraq-Niger uranium papers
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 30 1st NSC meeting of Bush admin talked about how Iraq destabilizing Middle East CIA Dir
Tenet provided intel Iraq working on WMD at factory Treasury Sec O’Neil asked about WMD intel Tenet admitted no confirmation that Iraq producing WMD
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
(Musings On Iraq review The Price of Loyalty)
Feb 1 2nd Bush NSC meeting again dealt with Iraq policy End of meeting Rumsfeld said US
objective was not getting rid of Saddam but his WMD
Feb 7 CIA report to Congress no evidence Iraq reconstituted WMD program since 1990s
Feb 12 Rumsfeld said Iraq was probably not a nuclear threat at this time
Feb 23 Bush met PM Blair 1st time Sec State Powell said Iraq was using oil money to develop WMD
Feb 24 Powell said Iraq had not developed any significant WMD capability and UN
sanctions worked
Apr 10 1st CIA report that Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes for centrifuges and sign Iraq
renewed nuclear program Didn’t provide any analysis for claim Did say tubes were step backward from centrifuges Iraq used before Gulf War
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Apr 11 1st US Energy Dept report on aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy Said were wrong
size for centrifuges Did not meet specifications for centrifuges Iraq used before Said Iraq was openly buying large amount of tubes Would not be action for a secret nuclear program Thought tubes were for rocket launchers
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Apr 17 Dept of Energy report said didn’t have enough info to tell whether Iraq had
restarted its nuclear program
May 5 Iraq told UN it worked on a nuclear bomb in the 1980s but it proved unfeasible In the 90s
IAEA found Iraq no longer working on nuclear program
May 9 US Energy Dept said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy fit specifications for rocket
launchers IAEA found similar tubes during inspections in Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jun 14 CIA report aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were probably for centrifuges for
nuke program but could be rockets Still provided no justification for claim tubes for centrifuges
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 2 US intel report on confiscated aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy Said did not fit
rocket launchers Did match 1950s German centrifuge design
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 31 Report Iraq working on nuclear program Quoted David Kay former UN inspector
and INC defectors Khidir Hamza and Adnan Haideri May 02 Haideri labeled fabricator by DIA
Aug 7 US Energy Dept said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy could be for centrifuges
but probably for rockets
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Aug 17 US Energy Dep report said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were probably for
rockets not centrifuges for nuclear weapons program Said tubes didn’t match any designs for operating centrifuges Also refuted CIA analyst who claimed tubes could work for 1950s German centrifuge design Did say that Iraq trying to buy magnets and other moves showed that Iraq restarted its centrifuge program to enrich uranium Didn’t know if nuclear program restarted
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Sep 8 German intel terminated CURVEBALL as a source Continued to be used by US intel as
source for Iraq having mobile WMD
labs
(Musings
On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq
Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq The Story Of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
Sep 11 Italian intelligence told CIA that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Sep 13 NSC met Def Sec Rumsfeld said Iraq was a threat because could give WMD to terrorists
Sep 30 Iraqi defector told Sunday Telegraph Saddam started crash program to produce WMD in
six months
Oct 1 Iraqi newspaper said US might get a taste of its own poison when 1st death from anthrax letter
announced
Oct 14 Guardian article quoted fmr CIA Dir Woolsey Iraq only country with capabilities to pull
off anthrax letters in US
Oct 15 CIA report from Rome said that Italian intel said Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger but
didn’t see much merit in it CIA DIA Energy Dept thought Iraq-Niger uranium deal was possible State Dept thought story suspect
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Oct 17 Bush called PM Blair Told him Iraq probably behind anthrax letters in US
Oct 18 2nd CIA report on story that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger Said Iraq didn’t have
facilities to process uranium
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Oct 26 After anthrax letters sent to Wash DC ABC reported anthrax trademark of Iraq’s WMD
program
Oct 28 Columnist George Will told ABC that Saddam vowed revenge against US Had anthrax Loved
WMD
Nov 5 State Dept intel agency said looked like Iraq renewed production of chemical weapons
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Nov 8 NY Times article based upon 2 Iraqi defectors provided by INC One was Abu Zeinab Qairy
Both said they saw Islamists and WMD produced to attack US
Nov 8 Natl Sec Adv Rice said US would not allow Iraq to threaten its own people its neighbors or US
interests by acquiring WMD
Nov 12 INC presented Iraqi defector Lami who claimed Iraq training terrorists at Salman
Pak and had anthrax
Nov 18 Def Policy Board’s Richard Perle was one of the first to say Iraq was a threat because of
WMD and ties to Al Qaeda during interview on ABC
Nov 20 US Embassy in Niger reported that Niger official said no way it could produce enough
uranium reports claimed Iraq bought from it
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Nov 20 Wall St Journal OpEd by Eliot Cohen said Iraq helped Al Qaeda and had WMD so should be
attacked
Nov 30 Def Secretary Rumsfeld told press US knew Iraq had WMD because defectors said so
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
Dec 2 Sec of State Powell said no reason to believe Iraq didn’t have WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
Dec 4 Blair told Bush Iraq was a threat because it had WMD could export it and violated UN
resolutions
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Dec 14 DIA report Iraq had 100 tons of WMD agents and munitions Could produce WMD
Didn’t know if happening but could be on small scale
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Dec 17 Iraqi defector Haideri provided by INC told CIA Iraq had secret WMD labs Labeled
fabricator by DIA May 2002 but his story continued to be used Haideri never saw WMD Later said he made up story because INC told him to
Dec 17 Secretary of State Powell said sanctions on Iraq should continue because it still had WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
Dec 20 NYTimes article with INC defector Haideri Claimed he went to 20 WMD sites Haideri’s
claims used in CIA DIA and White House reports Labeled fabricator by DIA May 2002 but his story continued to be used Haideri never saw WMD Later said he made up story because INC told him to
2002
Jan 3 CIA paper said Iraq could hit neighbors with WMD missiles
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
Jan 29 Bush State of Union called Iraq part of Axis of Evil Said it still had WMD programs
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 30 CIA unclassified report to Congress Iraq trying to rebuild its nuclear program
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Feb 5 CIA report on Iraq-Niger uranium deal Said it received text of deal from foreign
intel service CIA and DIA thought text important State Dept skeptical
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Feb 5 CIA report said Iraq had 7 mobile WMD labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
Feb 11 Fmr CIA Dir Woolsey told Pentagon about Iraqi defector with intel on Iraq’s
WMD provided by INC
Feb 12 DIA report Iraq tried to buy 500 tons of yellowcake uranium from Niger
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Feb 18 US Embassy in Niger said new details on Iraq-Niger uranium deal meant a new look into
story was needed
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Feb 19 CIA met with fmr Amb Joseph Wilson to ask if he would go to Niger to investigate
alleged Iraq yellowcake deal
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Feb 20 UK’s Joint Intel Comm chief Scarlett briefed Foreign Secretary Cook on Iraq’s
WMD Cook thought Iraq didn’t have capability for large scale WMD attack
Feb 20 CIA gave former Amb Joseph Wilson talking points for his trip to Niger to
investigate Iraq-Niger uranium deal
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
Feb 21 Former Amb Joseph Wilson left for Niger to investigate Iraq buying uranium
from it
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
Feb 26 Fmr Amb Wilson arrived in Niger to investigate Iraq trying to buy uranium
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
Feb 28 Blair told Australian TV Iraq was a threat because it had WMD
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Mar 1 State Dept report said unlikely Iraq bought uranium from Niger in response to
request by Cheney for info
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 3 60 Minutes ran story based upon Iraqi defector who said he was from Mukhabarat Said Iraq
had mobile WMD labs to hide program from UN inspectors Labs didn’t exist
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
Mar 4 State Dep intel memo sent to Powell and DIA Didn’t believe Niger would sell
uranium to Iraq
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 5 CIA debriefed former Ambassador Wilson on his trip to Niger to investigate Iraq
buying uranium Wilson said he found no proof of Iraq-Niger uranium deal but in 1999 Iraq asked Niger about better trade CIA believed 1999 overture about better Iraq-Niger trade might have been supporting proof of uranium deal Wilson left CIA debriefing believing he disproved Iraq-Niger uranium deal CIA felt they might have proof it happened
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 5 UK Foreign Sec Straw had article in Times of London that there was increasing evidence
Iraq’s WMD program were growing
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Mar 5 UK Joint Intelligence Committee head Scarlett briefed Blair on Iraq’s WMD
Afterward Blair thought Iraq only had battlefield WMD capability
Mar 6 Blair wrote article for UK paper saying Iraq had WMD and would use them
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Mar 8 CIA report on former Ambassador Wilson’s trip to Niger to investigate Iraq-Niger
uranium story Niger denied any deal Said June 1999 Iraqi delegation met with Niger PM about business which PM thought was buying uranium CIA analysts believed Wilson confirmed Iraq was interested in buying uranium from Niger State Dept believed Wilson’s trip confirmed that Iraq had not tried to buy uranium from Niger Wilson would later claim that he talked about fake Niger-Iraq documents but he didn’t know about them until later
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 10 CIA briefing included story that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 12 2 CIA reports said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for centrifuges and Iraq
might be trying to build a nuclear weapon
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 12 Labor Party meeting at parliament Foreign Sec Straw presented paper that Iraq’s WMD a
threat
Mar 17 Times of London article quoted Iraqi defector provided by INC that Iraq
had WMD programs
Mar 19 CIA Director Tenet told Senate Iraq developing nuclear weapons
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 19 DIA Dir Adm Wilson briefed Senate Armed Services Comm on threats to US
Didn’t include Iraq Said Iraq contained only residual WMD programs
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
Mar 20 DIA labeled Maj Harith INC defector who claimed he came up with idea for mobile WMD
labs in 1996 and built 7 of them as a fabricator Was never received by rest of U.S. intel that continued to use his story
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 22 Bush said war with Iraq no imminent but Saddam was a bad leader who gassed his own
people and had WMD and could give them to terrorists Bush said he supported regime change
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
Mar 22 UK Foreign Office Political Director Ricketts memo to Foreign Secretary Straw
said no signs Iraq working on its WMD or nuke programs
Mar 25 CIA report said foreign govt told it Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 25 Kurds told New Yorker Iraq was sending WMD to Al Qaeda
Apr 10 Blair told parliament Saddam was threat to his people and region and was working
on WMD
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Apr 14 Vanity Fair article talked with Iraqi defector Saadi who claimed Iraq building WMD
Apr 18 CIA report said Iraq might have been able to make chemical weapons since 1999
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Apr 25 IAEA report that during inspections in 1990s Iraq’s nuclear program was
dismantled and no ability to produce nuke material
May 29 UK Def Min official Kelly said Blair govt had spun WMD dossier on Iraq
Jun 11 Def Sec Rumsfeld said Iraq had chemical weapons and an active nuclear program
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 16 PM Blair told parliament Iraq’s WMD threat to world and had to be dealt with but
no decision for military action made
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jul 20 CIA Dir Tenet met MI6 Head Dearlove Tenet said WMD intel didn’t matter
because war was inevitable
Jul 22 US Energy Dept assessed Iraq trying to buy magnets meeting with scientists Niger
uranium story showed that Iraq restarted nuclear program
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 23 Blair cabinet meeting MI6 chief Sir Dearlove said Washington decided war was inevitable
and Bush wanted to justify invasion via terrorism and WMD Dearlove said that intelligence and facts were being used to justify invasion by White House Blair’s foreign policy adviser said Iraq was fourth most dangerous country with WMD behind North Korea Iran and Libya
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 3.3 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and Options April to July 2002)
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 3.4 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and Options, Late July to 14 September 2002)
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Sec 4.2 Iraq WMD Assessments, July to September 2002)
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jul 31 Report Iraq working on nuclear program quoted fmr UN inspector Kay and INC
defectors Hamza and Haideri May 02 Haideri labeled fabricator by DIA
Jul 31 INC defector ex-nuke scientist Hamza testified to Senate Foreign Relations
Comm claiming Iraq only lacked uranium to build nuke bomb in 1994
Aug 1 CIA made 1st paper explaining assessment of tubes Said they were for nuclear program
Said high specifications showed they were for centrifuges
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Aug 2 DIA report on debate over aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy DIA sided with CIA
that tubes were for centrifuges Said matched 1950s German centrifuge design
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Aug 17 CIA made 1st paper explaining assessment of aluminum tubes Said they were for
nuclear program Said high specifications showed they were for centrifuges
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Aug 23 UK intel said it knew little about Iraq’s WMD since 1988
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Aug 26 Cheney speech at Veterans of Foreign War Called Iraq a mortal threat to US Said no
doubt Iraq had WMD and that it was good at deceiving weapons inspectors Said Iraqi defectors like Hussein Kamil proved Iraq had renewed its nuke program
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Sep 3 Blair press conference said Saddam threat because of WMD that had to be
dealt with
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Sec 4.2 Iraq WMD Assessments, July to September 2002)
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Sep 3 White House Iraq Group met for 1st time Decided on 1st propaganda campaign to promote war
with argument Iraq could get a nuclear bomb and the smoking gun could be a mushroom cloud Campaign started Sep 8
(Musings On Iraq How The Bush White House Used Leaked Intelligence To Launch A Media
Campaign Against Iraq In September 2002)
Sep 4 Report on whether Iraq working on nuclear program or not Quoted INC defector
ex-nuke scientist Hamza who claimed Iraq could have a bomb by 2005 Reporters taken to nuclear facility at al Qaim and was destroyed
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
Sep 5 Blair officials met over draft of WMD dossier Said Iraq had capability to produce
WMD Not sure it had made any Discussed WMD dossier Said Iraq had nuclear program but couldn't make weapon with sanctions
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Sep 6 Gen Franks told Bush and NSC US had been looking for Iraq SCUDs and WMD for 10 yrs
and hadn’t found any Gen Franks believed Iraq had WMD but hadn’t found any to target
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
Sep 6 Report IAEA report found Iraq rebuilding buildings at nuclear site IAEA said no evidence
work had to do with nuclear program but not included in article
Sep 7 Bush and Blair press conference Both said IAEA found Iraq had nuclear program
and was 6 months away from getting a bomb Were referring to 1996 IAEA report during UN inspections not new one
Sep 8 Day 1 of White House PR campaign about Iraq WMD and nuclear threat
(Musings On Iraq How The Bush White House Used Leaked Intelligence To Launch A Media
Campaign Against Iraq In September 2002)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)a
Sep 8 White House told NYTimes Iraq trying to secretly buy materials like aluminum tubes
for its nuclear program Times article quoted Iraqi defector saying Iraq renewed WMD program Had large stockpiles 2nd Iraqi defector said Saddam wanted to restart his nuclear program Quoted White House official who said sign of Iraq’s nuclear program may be a mushroom cloud
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Sep 8 National Security Adviser Rice and Vice President Cheney went on TV repeating
claim Iraq rebuilding nuke program Used aluminum tubes as proof and quoted NY Times article on same topic
Sep 8 Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Secretary of State Powell Joint Chiefs head Gen
Myers all appeared on talk shows promoting Iraq as a threat due to WMD and nuke program
Sep 8 1st time admin officials said proof of Iraq’s nuke program “may be a mushroom
cloud” that would be repeated by others later on “Mushroom cloud” line came from White House speechwriter Gerson at a White House Iraq Group meeting
Sep 9 UK intel report Iraq had WMD and producing it Said Saddam would use WMD if threatened
Could fire missiles with WMD at Israel Claimed Iraq could deploy WMD in 45 mins Butler Report said report mostly based upon judgements of what Iraq was doing rather than actual evidence
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Sec 4.2 Iraq WMD Assessments, July to September 2002)
Sep 9 State Dept spokesman mentioned that Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes
for centrifuges for nuke program to reporters
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Sep 9 Iraqi-American doctor from Cleveland went to Iraq for CIA to talk to her brother
who worked on Iraq’s nuke program Brother said program ended in 1991 Doctor one of dozens that talked with relatives in Iraq working on WMD-nuclear programs Info never used in any major reports CIA thought it was part of Iraqi disinformation campaign
(Musings On Iraq review State of War, The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
Sep 10 Iraq took journalists to Tuwaitha site that US claimed was a nuclear facility Were
shown three empty and broken down buildings
Sep 11 UK intel report that Iraq was producing WMD 7 days a week in facilities
throughout the country Warned that overthrowing Saddam would increase chances of WMD falling into hands of terrorists and terrorism in general
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Sep 11 Blair said parliament had to discuss Iraq and WMD Said war with Iraq would
increase terrorist threat but Saddam giving WMD to terrorists was a larger concern
Sep 11 Bush speechwriter Gerson called another speechwriter Gibson that Iraq tried to
buy uranium from Niger and wanted it included in Bush’s UN speech CIA was going to allow Niger claim be used in Bush’s UN speech initially, but then changed mind saying it was single source and unconfirmed
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Sep 11 White House asked CIA to clear use of aluminum tubes story for Bush UN speech
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Sep 12 Bush UN speech Said Iraq growing threat Could build a nuclear bomb within a
year if got materials Said Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes for nuke program
(Musings On Iraq How The Bush White House Used Leaked Intelligence To Launch A Media
Campaign Against Iraq In September 2002)
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Sep 12 White House paper Decade of Deception and Defiance Went over Iraq’s human
rights abuses WMD programs Said Iraq had mobile WMD labs Said Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes for centrifuges for nuclear program Included Dec 01 NY Times report on INC defector Adnan Haideri who claimed he went to secret WMD facilities Haider labeled a fabricator by the DIA in May 2002 but his claims continued to be used Included INC defector report that Iraq training terrorists to hijack planes at Salman Pak
Sep 12 CIA ordered intel community to come up with National Intelligence Estimate on
Iraq’s WMD and nuclear programs
Sep 13 Bush said US might only be certain Iraq had a nuclear device when it used one
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Sep 13 US official told Knight Ridder Iraq not close to building bomb to refute Bush’s
claim day before to UN
Sep 13 NY Times article said majority view within US govt including the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory was aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for centrifuges Said State and Energy Depts dissented on tubes but they were in minority Oakd Ridge Labs actually opposed view that aluminum tubes were for centrifuges
(Musings On Iraq How The Bush White House Used Leaked Intelligence To Launch A Media
Campaign Against Iraq In September 2002)
Sep 13 Report if aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for centrifuges would be first
step in a long process to produce enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb
Sep 13 Energy Dept issued order forbidding employees to mention aluminum tubes Iraq
tried to buy with reporters
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Sep 14 Bush said Iraq had scientists infrastructure and buying equipment to enrich
uranium to build nuclear bomb in a year
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Sep 14 Deputies NSC meeting National Intelligence officer for Strategic Programs said US intel on
Iraq’s WMD didn’t justify a war Said NKorea a bigger threat and when that became public White House would have hard time explaining why it went to war
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
Sep 16 New draft of UK dossier on Iraq said it had recently produced WMD but no
evidence
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Sep 18 Def Sec Rumsfeld told House committee Iraq was close to acquiring materials to build a
nuclear bomb
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Sep 18 CIA Paris Station Chief met with Lebanese reporter who said Iraq’s Foreign Minister
Sabri was willing to work with US Reporter passed along message from Sabri that Iraq’s WMD and nuclear programs were not active chemical weapons given to tribal and provincial leaders so wouldn’t be found Station Chief went to CIA HQ to tell about meeting Iraq Operations Group said Sabri was spreading disinformation
(Musings On Iraq How The CIA Ignored Hard Evidence That Iraq No Longer Had Any WMD Programs In 2002 – Part 2)
Sep 19 Saddam sent letter to UN saying it had no WMD or nuclear weapons
Sep 19 Bush met with 11 Congressmen to lobby them on Iraq policy Said war on terror
going well but real threat was Iraq and WMD
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Sep 19 Institute for Science and Intl Sec said Bush admin was suppressing dissent on
aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy Institute said tubes not proof of centrifuge program by Iraq
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Sep 19 Def Sec Rumsfeld denied US helped Iraq develop WMD during Iran-Iraq War at Senate
hearing which was false
Sep 20 Powell testified to House International Relations Committee to lobby for
Congressional use of force resolution vs Iraq Said there was debate about Iraq’s intent on buying aluminum tubes but Saddam trying to get nuke technology
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Sep 22 National Security Adviser Rice said UN sanctions were failing and Iraq using illegal
revenues to develop WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
Sep 23 Former UN inspector Albright for Inst for Science and Intl Security issued report
aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were not for centrifuges Probably rockets
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Sep 23 MI6 Report Iraqi source said Iraq had MWD in glass containers Analysts worried this story
sounded like the movie The Rock Source labeled liar in Feb 2003
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 4.3 Iraq WMD Assessments, October 2002 to March 2003)
Sep 24 UK dossier on Iraq WMD released Blair told parliament that Iraq had WMD and
it was producing them Said that Iraq could use WMD in 45 minutes Story came from Iyad Allawi’s Iraqi National Accord Claimed Iraq could build a nuclear bomb in 2 years Included story Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa Said no definitive intelligence that aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for nuke program Butler Report said dossier made judgements into certainties that didn’t exist
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Sec 4.2 Iraq WMD Assessments, July to September 2002)
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Sep 24 UK Foreign Secretary Cook was surprised dossier on Iraq was mostly old WMD
material
Sep 24 CIA Dir Tenet briefed Senate Foreign Relations Committee on intel on Iraq’s
WMD Told committee Iraq rebuilding its nuclear program Proof bought aluminum tubes Mentioned Niger uranium deal Sen Biden asked Tenet what technical evidence did CIA have of Iraqi WMD Tenet said none but had good human sources
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Sep 24 After Tenet testified State and Energy Dept intel analysts testified that they did
not believe aluminum tubes were for centrifuges
Sep 25 National Intelligence Office for Strategic and Nuclear Programs had analyst meeting
to draft National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq CIA and DIA analysts said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for centrifuges and that Iraq reconstitution nuclear program Energy and State Dept analysts said tubes were for rockets
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Sep 26 Bush met with 18 Congressmen to lobby them on Iraq Said Iraq had WMD and
building facilities to make more If it got uranium could build a bomb in 6 months Repeated British claim that Iraq could use WMD in 45 min CIA Dir Tenet had warned Bush not to use claim because came from questionable source
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Sep 26 Secretary of State Powell told Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Iraq-
Niger uranium deal was proof had nuke program Also tried buying aluminum tubes for program
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Sep 26 Rumsfeld said Iraq had active WMD programs
Sep 28 Bush radio address Said Iraq could launch a WMD attack upon US in 45 minutes
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Oct 1 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq released Said Iraq had WMD
Reported renewed production of mustard, sarin, cyclosporine, VX Reports Iraq bought chemicals and equipment for limited chemical weapons production Had little info on chemical stockpiles, but could be 100-500 metric tons Said all parts of biological weapons program active Had low confidence Iraq would use WMD and no intel that Iraq planning to attack US Speculated that in desperation Iraq might use Al Qaeda for WMD attack on US State Dept had 11 page annex with disagreements with NIE’s findings Said US intelligence community had no compelling case Iraq had active nuclear program Didn’t believe Iraq-Niger uranium story Said Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes for centrifuges Sign of renewed nuclear program State and Energy Depts disagreed that aluminum tubes were for centrifuges Air Force intelligence didn’t think UAVs for WMD but rather for reconnaissance
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq The CIA’s Shoddy Pre-War Intelligence Reporting: The Case Of Iraq’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs))
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Oct 2 Summary main points of National Intelligence Estimate released Said Iraq
rebuilding nuke and WMD programs
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Oct 2 Iraq called UK’s weapons dossier propaganda and lies
Oct 2 Bush said that Iraq had WMD stocks rebuilding programs working on nuclear
programs
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Oct 2 CIA Dep Director McLaughlin told Senate British had stretched story that Iraq
tried to buy uranium from Africa Said low chance Iraq would use WMD Would only use the if attacked
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Oct 4 Unclassified version of CIA’s report on Iraq’s WMD released by White House
Dropped most of the reservations in original Said disputes within intelligence community over Iraq’s nuke program Said most believed aluminum tubes were for centrifuges Others for rockets
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq 2002 CIA White Paper On Iraq Vs the 2002-2003 U.N. Inspectors)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Oct 4 General in charge intel for US invasion met with DIA to go over suspected WMD sites DIA
had no plans on how sites were to be dealt with during invasion General couldn’t confirm there was WMD at any of the 946 sites listed by DIA because intel so bad
Oct 4 CIA told NSC to remove reference to Iraq trying to buy uranium from Niger
from Bush speech
Oct 4 CIA’s National Intel Officer told Senate Intel Committee he questioned Iraq-Africa
uranium story in British dossier
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
Oct 4 Report Institute for Science and International Technology, Lawrence Livermore Lab
said didn’t believe aluminum tubes for centrifuges Claimed White House ignored contradictory views on Iraq Pushing US intel to come up with more on Iraq
Oct 5 Bush in weekly radio address said U.S. had found Saddam ordered field
commanders to use chemical weapons something Iraq denied it had
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Oct 5 CIA Dir Tenet told White House to remove Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger
from Bush speech Said intel was weak
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
Oct 5 Knight Ridder article quoted several intelligence officers that Bush admin
ignoring dissenting opinions on aluminum tubes
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Oct 5 NSC meeting CIA Dir Tenet said CIA didn’t know specific sites where Iraq had WMD that
would provide a smoking gun but certain Iraq had weapons
Oct 6 Bush said Iraq could have a nuclear weapon in a year if got enriched uranium
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Oct 6 Deputy National Security Advisor Hadley asked CIA Dir Tenet if story of Iraq
trying to buy uranium from Niger could be put back in Bush speech Tenet said no
Oct 6 CIA told NSC to drop mentioning Iraq-Africa uranium story in draft of Bush
speech for 2nd time
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
Oct 7 Bush speech in Cincinnati outlined Iraq’s WMD and nuke threat to lobby for
Congressional use of force resolution Said US tried containment sanctions and inspections and Iraq still had WMD Warned that if Iraq didn’t disarm US would do it Said Iraq great threat because of WMD and its history of aggression Said if Iraq got enriched uranium could have a nuclear bomb in less than a year Said Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes for its nuclear program Said Al Qaeda and Iraq were united in their hatred for the US and had high level contracts for a decade Claimed Iraq trained Al Qaeda in bomb making and poisons and Saddam celebrated 9/11
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Oct 7 CIA blocked Bush from talking about Iraq trying to buy uranium from Africa in
speech
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
Oct 7 Italian contacted journalist about providing her with Iraq-Niger uranium deal
papers They turned out to be fakes
Oct 7 CIA Director Tenet sent letter to Senate Intelligence Committee Said Iraq wouldn’t
conduct terrorist or WMD attacks upon US unless regime was threatened Said Iraq wouldn’t conduct terrorist or WMD attacks upon US unless regime threatened
Oct 8 White House posted pictures claiming to be Iraq working on three facilities for
nuclear weapons program
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Oct 9 CIA Dir Tenet told Senate Intel Comm Iraq would only use WMD if regime was
threatened
Oct 9 Italian reporter gave US Embassy in Rome copies of documents on alleged Iraq-
Niger uranium deal CIA Rome Station Chief misplaced documents and were never sent to CIA HQ Documents were later proved fakes
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Oct 9 Energy Dept official told Guardian he didn’t believe aluminum tubes Iraq tried to
buy were for nuclear program Former UN inspector Albright told Guardian CIA pushing aluminum tubes story while nuclear experts disagreed with it Albright said Lawrence Livermore Lab was told not to voice its doubts about aluminum tubes
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Oct 9 NY Times reporter Judith Miller told Oprah US intel believed Iraq had anthrax and
botullinium toxin
Oct 9 Sen Kerry during Senate debate said after 9/11 no one could be certain that WMD wouldn’t be
used against US or allies in Mideast Sen Clinton said that if Iraq left unchecked its WMD and nuke programs would grow Sen Byrd said he wanted more evidence that Iraq was a threat Sen Kennedy said he saw no persuasive evidence that Iraq was going to get a nuke anytime soon Said attacking Iraq without UN inspectors and intl support would help Al Qaeda and increase terrorism
Oct 10 UK intel report said that Iraq would only launch terrorism if attacked by US and
couldn't use WMD outside its territory
Oct 11 UK intel report said Iraq would hide its WMD from UN inspectors Said Iraq had extensive
program to hide WMD in residential buildings schools private homes Also had mobile labs that could move around Iraq Worried UN didn’t have enough intel on Iraq to be effective
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 4.3 Iraq WMD Assessments, October 2002 to March 2003)
Oct 12 Report questioned Bush’s claim Iraq still working on nuclear program based upon ex-
Iraqi nuclear scientist Hamza Ex UN inspector said Hamza exaggerating Hamza provided by INC Former UN Inspetor Albright said he talked with nuclear experts at Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore who didn’t believe aluminum tubes were for Iraq’s nuclear program
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Oct 15 Italy’s SISMI intel agency told CIA of Iraq-Niger uranium deal documents
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Oct 16 State Dept intel agency gave CIA DIA NSA Energy Dept copies of Iraq-Niger uranium
documents
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Nov 1 Under Secretary of State Bolton told conference if Iraq got fissile material it could
have a nuclear bomb in a year
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Nov 12 CENTCOM Cmdr Gen Franks said if US didn't act on Iraq it could acquire and use a
nuclear weapon
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Nov 12 NYTimes article claimed Iraq bought anti-WMD drugs as sign that it had WMD and
was going to use it
Nov 14 Def Policy Board’s Perle quoted INC defector ex-nuke scientist Hamza that Iraq could
get nuclear bomb and attack US Called for preventive action vs Iraq
Nov 22 France told US that it did not believe Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Nov 25 US Navy report claimed uranium from Niger was in a warehouse in Benin heading for
Iraq Report later found to be false
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Nov 25 US intelligence took pictures of trucks moving materials from Amiriya Serum and
Vaccine Institute In February 2003 UN speech Secretary of State Powell claimed this was Iraqis hiding WMD before UN inspections restarted US analysts did not believe anything unusual was happening in photos
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Dec 2 White House spokesman said Iraq bought aluminum tubes for its nuke program
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Dec 5 White House spokesman said Bush and Rumsfeld wouldn't claim Iraq had WMD if it
wasn't true
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Dec 5 Report Tuwaitha nuclear facility showed no signs of involvement in weapons program
Dec 7 Iraq gave its WMD and nuclear weapons declaration to UN as part of new inspections
claiming it had no WMD
Dec 7 Iraqi general claimed weapons declaration proved Iraq had no WMD
Dec 7 US and UK condemned Iraq’s weapons declaration as being incomplete and for denying
it had WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
Dec 7 Cheney told NSC Iraq’s weapons declaration was a material breach and Bush should
move towards war Rumsfeld and Rice didn’t think Iraq’s weapons declaration was a material breach
Dec 10 UN inspectors went to Qaim ore facility that US listed as part of nuclear program Found
it destroyed
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
Dec 17 Secretary of State Powell hinted that US would reject Iraq’s weapons declaration to UN
inspectors
Dec 17 CIA said that Iraq did not include trying to buy uranium from Niger and aluminum tubes in
its declaration to UN inspectors
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Dec 17 US inspected warehouse in Benin where uranium headed for Iraq allegedly stored but found
nothing
Dec 18 Dep CIA Dir McLaughlin told European chief Drumheller to ask Germans if they could see
Curveball because wanted to use his story about mobile WMD labs publicly
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
Dec 18 UK Foreign Secretary Straw said Iraq in material breach of UN resolutions with
its weapons declaration that denied it had WMD
Dec 18 IAEA head El Baradei in Reuters said no evidence that Iraq has worked on any
nuclear facilities since 1998
Dec 18 State Dept posted listing of omissions in Iraq’s UN weapons declaration
Dec 19 Head UN inspector Blix and IAEA chief El Baradei told Security Council about initial
weapons inspections Blix said Iraq had not provided much new info Said 1 main problem was declared amounts of WMD produced vs what Iraq could’ve produced and 2 secret destruction of stocks Iraq’s claims and potential WMD production didn't match and had no proof of its secret destruction of stocks
Dec 19 Secretary of State Powell said Iraq in “material breach” of disarmament
obligations with its weapons declaration to UN
Dec 19 France said it was up to inspectors not US to determine whether Iraq was
hiding WMD
Dec 19 Russia criticized US for not providing evidence to Security Council and
inspectors of Iraqi violations during inspections
Dec 19 State Dept paper accused Iraq of active WMD programs rebuilding nuke
program Not disclosing them to UN Did not say it tried to buy uranium from Niger
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Dec 19 CIA European Chief Drumheller’s aide emailed him about concerns with Curveball and
mobile WMD labs story Said Curveball was more forthcoming when he wanted to be settled in Germany Afterward he said little Said German intel had doubts about him CIA hadn’t been able to vet him
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Dec 19 CIA European Chief Drumheller met with WMD division WINPAC over Curveball and his
mobile WMD labs story German office chief said Curveball seemed unreliable WINPAC analyst said Curveball corroborated by another source Was an INC defector Deputy CIA Dir’s executive assistant said Curveball was credible Labs didn’t exist
Dec 20 CIA blocked UN Amb to UN Negroponte mentioning Iraq-Niger uranium deal in speech to
Security Council
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Dec 21 Dep CIA Dir McLaughlin briefed Bush on intel on Iraq WMD Said Iraq had precursors and
biological components Had unaccounted WMD artillery shells from Iran-Iraq War Showed rocket engine test site that passed prescribed ranges Showed satellite photo of suspected clean up of chemical weapons spill Showed UAV flown 500km past UN limit of 150km Went over reports of Iraq having mobile WMD labs Played recording of 2 Republican Guard officers talking about removing nerve agents Said Saddam met with nuclear scientists talking about resuming their work Bush Natl Sec Adv Rice and Chief of Staff Card unimpressed by CIA presentation on WMD CIA Dir Tenet said case was a “slam dunk” Administration had been making assertions about threat of Iraq’s WMD and when presented with facts Bush didn’t believe the case
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq The CIA’s Shoddy Pre-War Intelligence Reporting: The Case Of Iraq’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs))
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Dec 21 Iraq invited CIA into country to find its WMD
Dec 24 Niger Premier said that his country did not try to sell uranium to Iraq
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Dec 30 NYTimes article said CIA looking into Iraq buying smallpox from a Russian
scientist
Dec 30 Report Reagan admin and its Middle East envoy Rumsfeld did nothing while Iraq used
WMD in Iran-Iraq War
Dec 31 Bush said couldn’t tell whether Iraq had a nuclear weapon or not
2003
Jan 2 UN inspector told Irish Times no active WMD or nuclear programs found in Iraq
Jan 6 IAEA asked State Dept for info about Iraq-Niger uranium deal
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Jan 6 IAEA head El Baradei no evidence of any suspicious Iraq nuclear activities
Jan 7 IAEA went to Al Qaim facility 3rd time US claimed was an active Iraqi nuclear plant
IAEA found it destroyed
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
Jan 9 White House spokesman said US knew for a fact Iraq had WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 9 Head UN weapons inspector Blix said no smoking gun found in Iraq but didn’t mean
there were no WMD Said Iraq’s Dec weapons declaration was incomplete
Jan 9 IAEA head El Baradei said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were probably for rockets
not nuclear program White House said Iraq was deceiving the IAEA
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Jan 10 NYTimes article IAEA challenged aluminum tubes story that they were for nuke
program and Energy and State Depts thought they might be for rockets CIA, DIA, NSA, White House said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for centrifuges State and Energy Depts disagreed UK didn’t think tubes for nuke program White House official told NYTimes Iraq was spinning IAEA after it said aluminum tubes were not for centrifuges
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Jan 11 CIA report Iraqi missile brigade outside Baghdad given missiles to hide from UN
inspectors some with WMD agents Report used in Powell’s Feb 03 UN speech
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 12 State Dept intel analyst sent email to intel community arguing that Niger docs
were fakes
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 12 State Dept told White House docs claiming Iraq-Niger uranium deal were fakes
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Jan 12 IAEA said it would be hard to believe that Iraq was hiding a complete nuclear
weapons program IAEA head El Baredei said provisional conclusion aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for rockets not centrifuges
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Jan 13 Blair TV speech said Iraq could give WMD to terrorists and US and UK could
act against Iraq without 2nd UN resolution
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jan 13 State Dept intel analyst told other analysts Iraq-Niger uranium docs were probably fake 2 CIA
analysts said they saw problems with docs but didn’t think they were fakes
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan15 CIA told White House that paper on Iraq should say Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 16 UN inspectors found 12 missile warheads that could carry WMD not included
in Iraq’s 2002 weapons declaration
Jan 16 CIA received docs claiming Iraq-Niger uranium deal Sent to State Dept to be
translated Turned out to be fakes
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 17 UN inspectors after 4 inspections said Fallujah II chlorine plant inoperative US
claimed it was producing WMD
Jan 17 CIA report said Iraq had rebuilt its nuclear program Said were reports Iraq tried to
buy uranium from Africa
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 17 CIA told Joint Chiefs of Staff that it had some reports that Iraq tried to buy
uranium from Africa
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Jan 18 UN inspectors said sites named by US as WMD facilities had been looked at and nothing
found
Jan 19 UN inspectors got tip that mobile WMD lab was at Amiriya Serum and Vaccine Institute
Truck was full of measles vaccines
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 20 Military Industrialization Commission ordered its director generals to come
forward with any info on WMD
Jan 20 White House gave report to Congress on Iraq’s noncompliance with UN inspectors
Included Iraq not mentioning trying to buy uranium
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 21 Deputy Secretary of State Armitage spoke at US Inst of Peace saying US trying to avoid
war but Iraq not accounted for its WMD
Jan 22 CIA sent its report on Iraq WMD to White House to help make case for war
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 22 CIA analyst told IAEA aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for centrifuges
IAEA said they were for rockets IAEA proved right
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Jan 23 Natl Sed Adv Rice wrote NY Times OpEd Iraq hiding its WMD programs from UN inspectors
and tried to buy uranium for its nuke program Reference to Iraq-Niger deal
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 23 Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld said that Iraq’s WMD and ties to terrorism were one threat
Jan 23 Under Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz said Iraq had tons of WMD and time running out
for it Said Iraq didn’t make truthful arms declaration to UN Talked about Iraqi defectors provided intelligence on mobile WMD labs Claimed Iraqi govt was threatening Iraqi scientists so they wouldn’t talke with UN
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Jan 23 White House released document saying Iraq hiding its WMD and tried to buy uranium for
it nuke program
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
Jan 24 DIA report repeated CIA reporting on Iraq-Niger uranium deal and Navy reported uranium
was in a warehouse in Benin Said Iraq could have gotten uranium
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 24 2nd NYTimes article on Iraqi defector Haideri provided by INC Said that he’d led
to dozens of DIA reports on Iraq’s WMD DIA labeled him a fabricator May 02 but story continued to be used
Jan 25 Military Industrialization Commission officials had Republican Guard commanders sign
docs that they had no WMD in units
Jan 25 Cheney chief of staff Libby briefed White House on case vs Iraq’s WMD Said Iraq hiding
its WMD and cleaning sites before UN inspections
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 27 Head UN inspector Blix told Security Council that Iraq cooperating with
inspections but had not accepted disarmament Asked what undeclared WMD items did Iraq have Asked did it illegally produce anything after 1998 Claimed Iraq’s WMD declaration had provided no new information and not answered questions about Iraq’s production of anthrax and VX gas and WMD bombs from Iran-Iraq War
Jan 27 IAEA head El Baradei told Security Council IAEA had found no evidence of an
active nuclear program in Iraq Said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were probably for rockets not nuclear program
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Jan 27 Secretary of State Powell said Iraq was hiding its WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 27 CIA report said Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger in 1999 Said was uranium
in warehouse in Benin but was going to France not Iraq
Jan 27 CIA Dir Tenet given copy of Bush’s State of the Union address that included
claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger Tenet didn’t read speech
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
Jan 27 CIA Berlin chief said that Iraqi defector CURVEBALL was considered a problem by
Germans and they hadn’t confirmed any of his story of mobile WMD labs Said serious problem using Curveball’s story
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
Jan 28 Bush’s State of Union said Iraq wasn’t disarming and hiding its programs from weapons
inspections Said Iraq had 25,000 liters of anthrax enough to make 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin Making sarin and VX gas Had mobile WMD labs Asked what 9/11 hijackers could’ve done if given WMD by Iraq Said Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes for its nuclear program Claimed British learned Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa
(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Future The aftermath of regime change)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)
Jan 29 UN Amb Negroponte said Iraq bought aluminum tubes for nuke program
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 29 Rumsfeld said Iraq had a nuke weapons program and tried to buy uranium from
Africa
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Jan 30 UN Amb Negroponte told Senate aluminum tubes Iraq bought were not right
for rockets in response to IAEA findings
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 30 Same hearing Dep Secretary of State Armitage said there were differences in US about
the tubes
Jan 30 White House spokesman said Bush stood by claim that aluminum tubes Iraq tried
to buy were for nuke program
Feb 1 Chief UN inspector Blix refused US claims that Iraq was sending WMD and
scientists outside country to hide them
Feb 2 At CIA Powell decided to use 3 intercepts of Iraqi officers perhaps talking about hiding
WMD in his UN speech
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Feb 3 UK issued paper on Iraqi deception campaign to hide its WMD Later turned out 60% was
plagiarized from a journal article
Feb 3 Powell OpEd in Wall St Journal said Iraq hiding its WMD
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Feb 3 CIA asked Italian intel for more info on Iraq-Niger deal but it had none
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Feb 4 US gave documents on alleged Iraq-Niger uranium deal to IAEA
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Feb 4 UN inspectors looked at two alleged mobile WMD labs and found nothing
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Feb 4 CIA analyst emailed Dep Chief Iraq Task Force against using Curveball story that Iraq had
mobile WMD labs Also questioned 3 supporting sources Dept Chief told analyst war coming so didn’t matter if there were questions about Curveball and his mobile WMD labs story Didn’t exist
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
Feb 4 CIA Director Tenet warned by European chief Drumheller that there were problems
with CURVEBALL’s story that Iraq had mobile WMD labs Tenet said don’t worry
Feb 5 National Security Adviser Rice told Congressional leaders US tried everything with Iraq
and now war only option Said WMD would be found afterward
Feb 5 Secretary of State Powell gave UN speech laying out US case against Iraq’s WMD
Claimed Iraq hidings its WMD from inspectors Said Qusay Hussein ordered removal of banned material from sites WMD missiles had been distributed to unit in western Iraq Said human sources claimed Iraq had mobile WMD labs Said some disputes within US intel but most agreed Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes for centrifuges Claimed Iraq had UAVs that could be used to deliver WMD Said Iraq gave Al Qaeda training in WMD
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq The CIA’s Shoddy Pre-War Intelligence Reporting: The Case Of Iraq’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs))
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Feb 5 Chief UN inspector Blix told press never found any evidence of Iraq having
mobile WMD labs
Feb 6 Press revealed most of UK intel dossier on Iraq trying to hide WMD was
plagiarized from a journal article
Feb 7 UK admitted paper on Iraq deception campaign over its WMD was plagiarized
from US college student paper
Feb 7 State Dept gave translated copies of Iraq-Niger uranium deal to CIA Were not
considered important to case Iraq restarted nuke program so docs not analyzed
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Feb 8 Bush said Iraq tried to buy equipment for WMD Saddam authorized his
commanders to use chemical weapons
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Feb 8 Iraq turned over new documents about its WMD programs to UN inspectors
that was called substantial
Feb 8 UN inspectors went to site CURVEBALL defector claimed was secret mobile WMD facility
and found nothing Didn’t match description CURVEBALL gave Samples found no WMD
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
Feb 10 US defense attache report that he looked at Benin warehouse and found no
uranium headed for Iraq Inspection done in Dec 2002
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Feb 11 CIA Dir Tenet told Senate Iraq had WMD and was hiding them from UN Inspectors Said Iraq
tried to buy aluminum tubes from for its nuclear program Had mobile WMD labs Told Senate Iraq harboring Zarqawi and Al Qaeda associate Iraq trained Al Qaeda operatives
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Feb 11 CIA senior Africa analyst said that Iraq-Niger uranium docs looked like fakes
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Feb 11 Aide to CIA European chief Drumheller emailed Defense HUMIT division chief about
Curveball not being vetted Division chief said CIA didn’t have a clue about how BND handled Curveball
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
Feb 11 UN inspectors wrote 9 page evaluation of Powell’s Feb 03 UN speech Pointed out 18 points
about WMD that were unsubstantiated Said most of the places Powell mentioned had been inspected and nothing found
Feb 12 IAEA interviewed Iraq’s ex-amb to Vatican Zahawie who was named in Iraq-Niger
uranium deal docs Denied story
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Feb 12 CIA Dir Tenet told Senate Iraq had larger WMD program then before Gulf War Said Iraq
would get a nuclear weapon sooner or later and would have missiles to deliver it Said US had briefed UN on all suspected WMD sites Didn’t give info on 21 of 105 sites
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Feb 13 IAEA interviewed Iraq’s ex-amb to Vatican Zahawie second time over Iraq-Niger
uranium deal Denied story
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Feb 14 Chief Inspector Blix briefed Security Council on Iraq inspections Said found no
evidence of WMD Said 400 inspections at 300 sites Were all without notice and gained entry every time Said Iraqis cooperating Soil samples showed no signs of WMD Iraq still had unaccounted for materials Found 2 banned missiles Refuted Powell’s claim that Iraqis were cleaning WMD sites before inspections
Feb 14 IAEA head El Baradei said it had dismembered Iraq’s nuke program in 1998 and
found no evidence that it had been restarted yet Said Iraq had provided documents for why aluminum tubes it tried to buy had such specific specifications
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Feb 14 Saddam issued presidential directive banning companies from importing
equipment for WMD
Feb 17 IAEA found that Iraq-Niger uranium docs were fakes
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Feb 20 Chief UN Inspector Blix told Blair intelligence he’d gotten wasn’t great and
maybe Iraq didn’t have much WMD
Feb 20 UN sources told press US intel on Iraq WMD was not turning up anything
Feb 20 Report interviews with Iraqi scientists by inspectors had not turned up any evidence
they were for nuclear program
Feb 24 CIA denied Newsweek story that Hussein Kamil claimed Iraq destroyed its
WMD in 90s He did say that
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
Feb 26 Bush speech at American Enterprise Institute Said that Iraq was direct threat to US
due to WMD and links to terrorists
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Feb 27 State Dept paper said multiple sources claimed Iraq had mobile WMD labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Feb 27 CIA told Sen Levine that it didn’t believe Iraq-Niger uranium deal made but Iraq
might have been interested in one in 1999
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
Feb 28 UN said found no evidence of active WMD programs in Iraq Inspectors went to site
CURVEBALL claimed was secret WMD facility for second time for samples Found nothing Said found small stock of mustard gas and some old WMD warheads and Iraq built 2 banned missiles Said Iraq had not provided any new information to answer questions from 1990s inspections
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
Feb 28 State Dept said Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes for its nuke program
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Feb 28 UN inspectors went back to site CURVEBALL claimed was used for secret mobile WMD labs
Found nothing again
Mar 1 UN inspectors went to Tikrit Industiral Facility where Iraqi defector CURVEBALL claimed 2
mobile WMD labs were supposed to be based Found nothing
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
Mar 5 Sec State Powell said that Iraq weapons declaration to UN farce because it said it had no
WMD and claimed it was hiding them from inspectors
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 5 National Intelligence Committee memo said that docs on Iraq-Niger uranium
deal were forgeries
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Mar 5 UN inspectors interviewed Gen Saadi who was Saddam’s chief scientific adviser Said there
were no mobile WMD labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 6 Bush TV address Said time running out on UN weapons inspectors Accused Iraq
of hiding its WMD Bush said that he’d not decided on war when he had
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 6 National Security Adviser Rice letter to Senator US had briefed UN on all suspected
WMD sites Didn’t give info on 21 of 105 sites
Mar 7 IAEA chief El Baradei told UN no evidence Iraq restarted nuclear program
Concluded that aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for rockets not nuke program Said documents claiming Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger were fakes
Mar 7 Powell told UN Security Council in response to IAEA that US had new proof that
aluminum tubes were for centrifuges
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 8 DIA report to Rumsfeld said that IAEA was dismissing Iraq-Niger uranium
story because based upon questionable docs said former ambassador Wilson’s trip found evidence that Iraq was interested in buying uranium from Niger Was navy report uranium was in Benin warehouse Was Somali businessmen who claimed shipment that was similar to Iraq-Niger deal although didn’t mention Iraq Niger or uranium
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 8 US official said administration had been duped by fake docs claiming Iraq tried
to buy uranium from Niger
Mar 8 Former Ambassador Wilson told CNN US govt should and did know that Iraq-
Niger uranium story was false
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
Mar 9 Powell told CNN that European country came up with new evidence that
aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for nukes not rockets
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 9 Powell on Meet The Press Iraq-Niger uranium story open to investigation and
IAEA had been wrong about Iraq’s nuke program in 1990s
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Mar 10 UK gave Iraq 6 requirements to meet if wanted to avoid war including Saddam
going on TV and admitting to WMD
Mar 10 US official said Iraq had cluster munitions to disperse WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
Mar 10 Institute for Science and International Security report asked whether US misled
public about Iraq rebuilding nuke program
Mar 11 CIA assessment said it didn’t dispute IAEA finding that Iraq-Niger uranium
docs were fakes
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 11 CIA WMD division said it didn’t dispute IAEA finding that Iraq-Niger
uranium docs were fakes and always considered intel on story fragmentary
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Mar 16 VP Cheney told Meet The Press that if world didn’t deal with Iraq it would go back to
producing WMD Was already reconstituting its nuclear weapons program Claimed UN inspectors were wrong about Iraq’s weapons program in general citing Iraq buying aluminum tubes which US claimed were for centrifuges
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 16 Report US and France source for all of Iraq’s germ samples for its biological weapons
program in the 1980s
Mar 17 Bush in TV speech said Iraq had WMD and was hiding them Gave Saddam
and sons 48 hours to leave office or face invasion
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Mar 18 US military official told CNN Iraqi troops had VX and mustard gas munitions
Mar 21 White House press secretary said no question Iraq’s WMD would be found
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 22 CIA officials told Wash Post they were always skeptical of Iraq-Niger uranium
story that was used in Bush State of Union
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 23 US forces reached outside Najaf Claimed they found WMD facility Story proved
false
Mar 23 CENTCOM commander Gen Franks said no doubt Iraq had WMD
Mar 23 White House said no question Iraq had WMD and that they would be found
Mar 25 Report that Saddam was thinking of using chemical weapons when US forces
attacked Baghdad
Mar 25 NY Times facility found outside Najaf was not a chemical weapons site
Mar 25 U.S. forces found chemical weapons gear in Nasiriya
Mar 27 Report sent to Washington that after examination 2 trailers found during invasion
were not mobile WMD labs as originally thought
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
Mar 28 US forces received warning of imminent WMD attack
Mar 30 Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld told ABC that US knew exactly where Iraq’s
WMD were Claimed they were around Tikrit and Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Mar 30 Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowtiz said Iraq war about WMD and that they
would eventually be found
Apr 5 US National Intelligence Commission memo said documents claiming Iraq-Niger
uranium purchase were fakes and 2002 report on deal was not credible
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Apr 5 Secretary of State Powell said he was sure Iraq’s WMD would be found
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Apr 7 NY Times reported 4 drums of possible nerve agents found near Karbala Story
proved false
Apr 8 Site south of Baghdad searched for chemical weapons but nothing found
Apr 10 Rumsfeld said that it was important for US to find Iraq’s WMD
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
Apr 10 Powell said he was sure US would find Iraq’s WMD
Apr 10 Defense Policy Board’s Adelman OpEd in Washington Post Said Iraqis would start
coming forward telling US where Iraq’s WMD were hidden
Apr 10 White House spokesman Fleischer said Iraq’s WMD would be found
Apr 11 Iraqi physicist Jaffar interviewed by CIA in UAE said Iraq had no WMD and
no nuke program
Apr 13 Rumsfeld said US would find Iraq’s WMD when people started coming forward
and providing intelligence about where they were hidden
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
Apr 13 US forces found suspicious missile warheads that might have contained WMD
Didn’t
Apr 14 White House said Iraq had WMD that was what war was about and they would be
found
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Apr 14 Final IAEA report given to UN Found no active Iraq nuclear program Niger
docs were fakes aluminum tubes for rockets not centrifuges
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Apr 17 Chief UN inspector Blix cited Iraqi scientist who said Iraq had no WMD
Apr 18 Some American officials worried that Iraq had sent its WMD to other countries
That’s why wasn’t found
Apr 18 Rumsfeld said it would take time to find Iraq’s WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Apr 19 Peshmerga found a trailer near Irbil that was a suspected mobile WMD lab Wasn’t
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Apr 21 NY Times article claimed Iraq had destroyed WMD right before war and moved rest to Syria
Said Iraqi scientist provided by INC told Americans Iraq had been working on WMD for years Led soldiers to banned precursors Scientist hadn’t worked on WMD since 1989 and story false
Apr 21 Iraqi scientist told US Iraq had destroyed WMD equipment right before invasion
Had sent some to Syria since 90s Worked with Al Qaeda Story false
Apr 22 US sent 1000 more experts to look for Iraq’s WMD
Apr 22 NY Times’ Miller told PBS NewsHour US found info on Iraq’s WMD Had
destroyed stocks right before invasion Fooled UN inspectors
Apr 24 Bush said Iraq might have destroyed its WMD before invasion but US would find them
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Apr 24 Trailer found near Mosul was suspected of being mobile WMD labs Turned out
not to be
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Apr 25 Bush said Iraq’s WMD were either hidden or were destroyed but US would find
them
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Apr 25 White House official told NY Times Iraq may not have had WMD just agents to
make them
Apr 26 White House said evidence Iraq might have destroyed its WMD right before
war and that proved war right
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Apr 26 Report no WMD found in sites Powell mentioned in his 03 UN speech
May 3 UK PM’s office said Iraq had WMD and they would be found
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
May 3 White House said it was sure Iraq’s WMD would be found
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
May 3 Bush said Iraq’s WMD programs would be found would just take time Was change
from previous claims that WMD stocks would be found
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
May 3 UK Defense Intelligence head said trailer found in Mosul could be mobile WMD lab Wasn’t
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
May 4 Powell said sure US would find Iraq’s WMD Rumsfeld said US never claimed
finding WMD would be easy Powell denied stories that Iraq sent its WMD to Syria
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
May 4 US official said unlikely to find any large MWD or nuke stocks in Iraq Said
sanctions had led Iraq to get rid of most of its WMD
May 4 Iraqi scientists told US investigators Iraq had no WMD for years
May 5 CIA did new test with aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy Found could not take
speed of centrifuges
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
May 6 NY Times Kristof OpEd used Fmr Amb Wilson as unnamed source on Iraq-Niger uranium
deal Said Wilson went to Niger in 2002 and told CIA and State Dept that uranium story based upon fake docs Wilson accused US intel of covering up his findings and decieving world Said White House and State Dept kept using story despite denial Wilson never saw docs and went to Niger 8 months before US got them
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
May 7 Undersecretary of Defense Cambone said US would eventually find Iraq’s WMD and
that mobile WMD labs had been found already
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
May 7 Joint Task Force 20 said trailer found in Irbil couldn’t be used for anything else but
producing WMD
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
May 9 US patrol found trailer in Mosul Claimed it was a mobile WMD lab
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
May 12 Report on INC defector ex-nuke scientist Hamza Saddam’s son-in-law Kamil called Hamza a
liar Hamza and former UN inspector Albright tried to get book published on Iraq’s nuke program Said Iraq failed to build bomb Not published Hamza got new book published Saddam’s Bombmaker claiming Iraq was closer to building a bomb than anyone knew
May 13 White House official said Iraq may not have had stocks of WMD but just
capability to make them
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
May 14 US officials said probably wouldn’t find WMD in Iraq were now focusing on
finding documents about programs
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
May 14 UK Foreign Secretary Straw said finding WMD was not vital to justify war
WMD #1 reason Blair wanted Saddam removed
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
May 15 2 most senior Iraqi biological scientists denied Iraq was working on WMD before
war
May 15 UK Foreign Secretary Straw hard evidence of Iraq WMD may never be found
Not important Iraq was in the wrong
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
May 15 Undersecretary of Defense Feith told Congress US found evidence of Iraq WMD
and needed Iraqis to step forward and tell them where it was
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
May 16 MI6 chief Sir Dearlove wrore that Iraqis were coming forward with info on Iraq’s WMD
programs
May 19 US intel paper to White House said captured Iraq trailers were mobile WMD
labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
May 21 Report CIA believed 3 trailers found in Iraq were mobile WMD labs Sec of
State Powell talked about in UN speech US showed picture of trailers to Iraqi in Germany known as CURVEBALL who confirmed they were WMD labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
May 23 Congress asked CIA to look into its pre-war intel on WMD after none found
May 25 Inspection team examined 2 captured trailers Immediately found they were not
Iraq mobile WMD labs as originally thought
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
May 27 Rumsfeld said Iraq might have destroyed its WMD right before war but they
would be found
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
May 27 Special DIA technical team made up of US-UK scientists report Said 2 trailers found were
not mobile WMD labs Report given to CIA
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
May 28 Blair said he still believed Iraq had WMD
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
May 28 Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz said threat of Iraq came from its WMD and links
to terrorists Said no one expected finding Iraq’s WMD would be easy because so good at hiding them
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
May 28 CIA posted White Paper on its webpage saying they found mobile WMD labs Proved that
Iraq was hiding its WMD program Were no labs
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
May 28 CIA held conference call with reporters to brief them on WMD mobile labs report
May 28 DIA inspection team in Iraq sent memo to Washington 2 trailers not mobile
WMD labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
May 28 UN inspectors told oversight panel that 2 trailers found were not for WMD Said equipment
was wrong
May 29 Bush said US found WMD because 2 alleged mobile WMD labs were found
Inspection found were not labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
May 29 BBC report Blair’s office had sexed up UK dossier on Iraq’s WMD
May 29 Cheney chief of staff Libby asked Undersecretary of State Grossman about a former
ambassador going to Niger mentioned in Wash Post column Grossman told him it was Joseph Wilson
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
May 30 Gen Conway 1st Marine Expeditionary Force surprised hadn’t found any
Iraq WMD in searches Said intel about Iraq having ready to use WMD was wrong
May 30 Rumsfeld announced new Iraq Survey Group would be formed to take over
search for Iraq’s WMD
May 30 Coalition forces looking for Iraq WMD increased to 1300 personnel
May 30 Final report of UN inspectors found no evidence of WMD programs
May 30 UN inspectors said soil samples helped back Iraq story that they destroyed anthrax
May 30 Blair said he was sure evidence of Iraq’s WMD would be found
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
May 30 Rumsfeld said war was not based upon lies because both US and England said
Iraq had WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
May 30 Bush said US found WMD because 2 alleged mobile WMD labs were found
Inspection found not labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
May 30 UnderSecDef for Intel Cambone said only 70 of roughly 600 suspected WMD
sites in Iraq had been inspected
May 31 DepDefSec Wolfowitz said that US would find Iraq’s WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
May 31 CIA Dir Tenet said that CIA had not compromised its intelligence on Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein)
Jun 1 House Armed Services Comm said it would investigate US failure to find Iraq’s
WMD
Jun 2 Blair said Iraq’s WMD would be found
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jun 2 State Dept memo said too early to say captured trailers Iraq mobile WMD labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jun 2 Iraqi scientist dug up 200 blueprints for centrifuges for Iraq’s nuclear program and
gave them to US forces
Jun 4 Blair said that he had no doubt that Iraq’s WMD would be found Rejected
independent inquiry into case for Iraq War
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jun 4 Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Feith said US wasn’t only country that claimed
Iraq had WMD and so did Clinton admin
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
Jun 5 Report VP Cheney and chief of staff Libby made multiple trips to CIA to question
Analysts about Iraq intelligence Some CIA analysts complained to press about VP Cheney’s questions about Iraq intelligence before invasion Some US intel officers admitted they didn’t have much new intel on Iraq’s WMD since 1990s
Jun 5 Bush said no terrorist could get WMD from Iraq because Saddam had been
overthrown
Jun 5 Former UN inspector Kay told CIA Dir Tenet military not doing good job hunting
for Iraq’s WMD
Jun 6 UN head inspector Blix said just because there were questions about Iraq’s WMD
didn’t mean it had them Said US and UK never provided quality intel on Iraq’s WMD
Jun 6 White House spokesman intelligence showed no doubt that Iraq had WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Jun 6 US intel thought they were close to finding Iraq’s WMD because more Iraqis
coming forward and giving info
Jun 6 Report Bush admin dropped uncertainties about WMD intel and made them
certainties that Iraq had them
Jun 6 Sep 02 DIA report leaked to press DIA thought Iraq had WMD but couldn’t find
specific facilities making them
Jun 6 CIA WMD office wrote assessment for Natl Sec Adv Rice Said 2 trailers found were mobile
WMD labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jun 7 Report 2002 DIA report said no reliable intel that Iraq was producing or had
stocks of WMD
Jun 7 DIA chief Admiral Jacoby said couldn’t find specific WMD sites in Iraq in 2002
but didn’t mean Iraq didn’t have WMD program
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
Jun 7 Iraq Survey Group took over US search for WMD
Jun 7 Report US and British analysts said captured Iraq trailers were not WMD mobile
labs as suspected
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jun 7 White House spokesman said WMD would be found
Jun 8 National Security Advisor Rice told Meet The Press US had looked at intel since
1991 to prove Iraq had WMD All agreed Iraq had weapons Said no one ever claimed they knew exactly where Iraq’s WMD were stored Admitted that Bush used false claim of Iraq-African uranium deal in his 03 State of Union but was quoting a British report and didn’t know about problems
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jun 8 Secretary of State Powell said all the intel on Iraq’s WMD was approved by CIA
Jun 8 UK Home Secretary Blunkett said Blair govt should not have released its Iraq WMD dossier
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jun 8 Cheney’s chief of staff Libby told NY Times reporter Judith Miller that secret
National Intelligence Estimate had stronger evidence of Iraq’s WMD then White House made public Was leak to support invasion
Jun 9 Bush said history would show that US made right decision to invade Iraq Said
sure Iraq had WMD and it would be found
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Jun 9 Rumsfeld told Senate US didn’t have new intelligence on Iraq’s WMD it just
saw it differently after 9/11
Jun 9 National Security Adviser Rice denied charges US exaggerated WMD case against
Iraq Admitted that false Iraq-Africa uranium story included in Bush’s State of
Union but okayed at time CIA twice told White House not to use it
Jun 9 CIA sent documents to Cheney’s office on former Ambassador Wilson’s trip to
Niger to investigate story Iraq tried to buy uranium but didn’t mention Wilson by name
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
Jun 9 Powell said that trailers found were Iraqi WMD mobile labs based upon
eyewitness evidence Inspections said no
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jun 9 More than 70 MPs in British parliament called for investigation into whether
Blair misled country on Iraq WMD
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jun 9 Report none of the suspected WMD sites bombed during invasion turned out to
have WMD
Jun 9 Report that CIA Dir Tenet pushed story that Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes
for centrifuges for nuke program US intel agencies doubted Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes for nuke program early on
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Jun 10 Bush told cabinet he was convinced Iraq had WMD Said invading Iraq was right
decision because of its WMD programs
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
Jun 10 Rumsfeld said he was confident Iraq’s WMD would be found
Jun 10 State Dept memo said Italian docs claiming Iraq-Niger uranium deal were fake
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jun 10 CIA hired former UN inspector David Kay to take over new Iraq Survey Group to
hunt for Iraq’s WMD
Jun 12 White House said were some fake documents about Iraq-Niger uranium deal but
much more evidence to support story
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jun 12 DIA memo to Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz said that docs on Iraq-Niger
uranium deal were fakes but were unconfirmed reports that supported deal such as report that uranium was in warehouse in Benin
Jun 12 Former Ambassador Wilson gave background info to Washington Post article
claiming CIA didn’t tell Bush doubts about Iraq-Niger uranium deal Wilson claimed he saw fake Iraq-Niger documents when he didn’t Wilson believed his trip to Niger discredited uranium deal story within CIA but didn’t Wilson was inflating his role and thought his trip was more important than it was to CIA
Jun 12 VP Cheney told his chief of staff Libby Wilson’s wife’s name and said she worked for CIA
Cheney and Libby were worried about press reports they felt were trying to blame VP and Bush for false reports on Iraq’s WMD
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
Jun 15 Report British looked at captured Iraq trailers and found not mobile WMD labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jun 17 CIA report to Dir Tenet said that Niger-Iraq uranium story was dropped because
based upon fake docs
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jun 17 CIA report that it found docs at Iraqi scientist’s home that proved Saddam
had nuke program Proved false
Jun 18 David Kay new head of Iraq Survey Group looking for Iraq WMD left for Qatar
to run search Kay switched Group from running search teams at suspected WMD sites to intelligence operation going through Iraqi documents to find evidence of weapons programs
Jun 18 CIA informed House and Senate Intel committees that it no longer believed Iraq-
Niger uranium story
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jun 19 US forces found an old buried centrifuge Claimed proof that Iraq had a nuclear
weapons program
Jun 19 US denied that captured Iraqi trailers were anything but mobile weapons labs
Inspections showed they weren’t White House acknowledged that State Dep intel questioned whether captured trailers were WMD labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jun 19 New Republic article on Iraq-Niger uranium deal Said Cheney got docs on deal from UK
Asked for more info leading to trip to Niger Docs did not come from British Used former Ambassador Wilson as unnamed source who said White House knew Niger story was a lie
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
Jun 20 Kay head of Iraq Survey Group meant to find Iraq’s WMD arrived in Baghdad Found out
that 75th Expeditionary Force which had looked for WMD after invasion had been sent back to US Not turned over any of their findings
Jun 22 Bush claimed other intel services said Iraq had WMD and Iraq never proved
it destroyed its WMD arsenal
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
Jun 22 Head weapons inspector Blix thought Iraq only had “debris” of WMD program since
none found since invasion Blix said pre-war reports by Iraqis that WMD were destroyed might prove true Cited Hussein Kamil in 94 who said no WMD left
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
Jun 23 Cheney’s chief of staff Libby told NY Times reporter Judith Miller fmr Amb
Wilson’s wife worked at CIA Claimed she set up his trip to Niger Was first of series of leaks to press to expose Wilson’s wife in retaliation for him opposing Iraq-Niger uranium story promoted by White House Libby also complained that CIA was selectively leaking information to press to lesson its role in claims about Iraq’s WMD
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
Jun 24 Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said Iraq had chemical weapons but not nuclear
weapons
Jun 24 UN head inspector Blix said inspectors were not impressed with Powell’s Feb 03
speech to UN on Iraq’s WMD
Jun 25 Report State Dept WMD analyst told Congressional hearing he felt pressured to
tailor intel to fit Bush admin agenda on Iraq
Jun 29 Report Secretary of State Powell misrepresented recording of Republican Guard in Feb 03
UN speech to make it seem like they were trying to hide WMD
Jun 29 Fmr Amb Wilson claimed it unlikely British intel didn’t receive CIA reporting that Iraq-
Niger uranium papers were fake Claimed he saw fake Iraq-Niger docs He didn’t Also had no knowledge of CIA-British intel sharing
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
Jun 29 1st UN inspector chief Ekeus OpEd said Iraq’s strategic rational for WMD was
Iran not the US or west Iraq learned form Iran-Iraq War its chemical weapons quickly deteriorated Meant Iraq changed its WMD policy after Gulf War to stop producing and focus upon design and engineering Iraq started just in time WMD program to work on infrastructure and then produce chemical weapons right before war Said Iraq’s WMD threat was in its research know how and production facilities Letting Saddam stay in power with WMD know how was a threat
Jun 30 New Republic article quoted intel officials that Bush admin exaggerated Iraq
aluminum tubes story IAEA had US British German exports look at aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy All said they were for rockets not centrifuges
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Jul 5 CIA Dir Tenet complained to NSC about Iraq-Africa uranium deal getting into
Bush’s State of the Union speech NSC said Deputy National Security Adv Hadley forgot CIA had pulled Iraq-Africa story from previous Bush speech Tenet didnt read State of Union Tenet said he and NSC responsible for Iraq-Africa uranium story getting into Bush’s State of Union
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 7 UK parliament’s Foreign Affairs committee report on UK WMD dossier said was not sexed
up by Blair govt Said Blair govt didn’t mislead parliament but misstated some of the intel on Iraq’s WMD Said claim Iraq could use WMD in 45 min should not have been so prominent in dossier Said UK dossier should’ve been more qualified on story Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 4.4 The Search For WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jul 8 PM Blair told Parliament he believed intelligence that Iraq had WMD Said evidence of Iraq-
Niger uranium deal was not based upon fake docs but separate intel
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jul 8 White House spokesman said intelligence on Iraq-Niger uranium deal turned out to be
inaccurate
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 8 NSC spokesman said fake Niger docs not only basis for Bush saying Iraq tried to buy uranium
from Africa used in State of the Union
Jul 8 Wash Post article quoted admin officials saying Iraq-Africa claim shouldn’t have been used in
State of Union and story could be wrong
Jul 8 VP Cheney’s chief of staff Libby met NYTimes’ Miller Said Fmr Amb Wilson’s NY Times
OpEd part of CIA campaign to absolve itself of bad intel on Iraq Libby said Wilson’s report on his trip to Niger never made it out of CIA and found evidence Iraq did try to buy uranium Libby said Natl Intel Est had stronger evidence that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa Libby told Miller that Wilson’s wife’s name was Valerie Plame and she worked at CIA Miller would later denied she got her name from Libby
Jul 8 Columnist Novak asked DepSecState Armitage why fmr Amb Wilson sent to Niger to look into
Iraq uranium deal Armitage said because his wife worked at CIA
Jul 8 Bush Chief of Staff Rove confirmed to columnist Novak that fmr Amb Wilson’s wife sent him
to Niger
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Jul 9 Rumsfeld told Congress Iraq war wasn't because new evidence about Iraq’s WMD but because
saw Iraq differently after 9/11
Jul 9 Fmr State Dept Military Intel officer Thielman told Congress US govt
misrepresented intel about Iraq threat
Jul 10 Secretary of State Powell told ABC that captured trailers were Iraqi mobile WMD labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 11 National Security Adviser Rice called CIA Director Tenet telling him he was
responsible for Iraq-Africa uranium story being used in Bush’s State of the Union
Jul 11 CIA Director Tenet issued statement that he was responsible for Iraq-Africa
Uranium deal getting into Bush’s State of Union speech Said CIA only had fragmentary intel on Iraq trying to buy uranium from Africa Also said that CIA had Iraq-Africa uranium story stricken from previous Bush speeches
Jul 11 CIA officials quoted in Washington Post that they tried to dissuade British from
using Iraq-Africa uranium story
Jul 11 White House spokesman Fleischer and Communication Director Bartlett told
reporter former Amb Wilson found little on his trip to Niger about possible Iraq uranium deal and wasn’t sent by CIA Director Tenet
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
Jul 11 Bush Chief of Staff Rove told Cheney Chief of Staff Libby he talked with
columnist Novak and he was going to write former Ambassador Wilson’s wife sent him to Niger
Jul 11 Bush Chief of Staff Rove told Time reporter Cooper former Ambassador Wilson
not sent to Niger by CIA Director Tenet or Cheney but his wife who worked at CIA
Jul 11 Columnist Rove called CIA to confirm that Valerie Wilson sent her husband to
Niger CIA tried to stop story and not mention her name
Jul 11 Rove Fleischer Bartlett Libby and Cheney all involved in plan to discredit former
Ambassador Wilson by saying he went to Niger because of his wife at the CIA They felt Wilson was making White House look bad over Iraq-Niger uranium deal
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Jul 11 Rice told reporters National Intelligence Estimate said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were
for nuke program She blamed CIA Director Tenet for Bush’s State of the Union using fake Iraq-African uranium deal Said at time of speech didn’t know about any problems with uranium story Rice received Oct 02 CIA memo not to use Niger story in a Bush speech because single sourced
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 13 Natl Sec Adv Rice said that controversy over Iraq-Africa uranium story in Bush’s State of the
Union was overblown Def Sec Rumsfeld said intelligence was correct at time White House said no doubt Iraq wanted a nuclear weapon before the war
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 13 After White House blamed CIA for Bush using Iraq-Africa uranium story CIA leaked it had
blocked story from being used before
Jul 13 PM Blair said he still believed story Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa CIA questioned its
veracity
Jul 14 Article Iraqi scientists said bombings inspections sanctions unilateral
destruction ended Iraq’s WMD programs before invasion
Jul 14 Columnist Novak exposed Ex Amb Wilson’s wife as a CIA agent after he
criticized Bush admin over false Niger-Iraq uranium deal Cited 2 White House officials as sources Got information from Cheney’s chief of staff Libby who was trying to discredit Wilson
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
Jul 14 UK Foreign Secretary Straw said CIA believed UK intel on Iraq-Africa uranium
deal
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Jul 19 On defensive over not finding WMD White House released parts of 02 National
Intel Est that Iraq was rebuilding its WMD and nuke programs
Jul 20 Report US military teams searching for Iraq’s WMD frustrated by not finding
anything
Jul 20 Report US intel actually knew very little about Iraq’s WMD after UN inspectors
left in 90s
Jul 22 Bush speechwriter Gerson found 2 CIA memos from Oct 02 on why Iraq-Niger
uranium story should not be used in Bush speech Came just after White House blamed CIA Director Tenet for why Niger story was used in Bush’s Jan 03 State of Union speech
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 24 Spain Foreign Min Palacio said no evidence Iraq had a nuclear bomb program
Jul 27 Iraq Survey Group head Kay briefed Pres Bush Vice President Cheney Defense
Secretary Rumsfeld Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz CIA Director Tenet National Security Adviser Rice Chief of Staff Card on WMD hunt Kay said Iraq probably only had surge capacity to quickly restart WMD programs but no stockpiles Said trailers found were probably not mobile WMD labs Kay said Bush seemed unphased by fact that no WMD found
Jul 27 Kay separately briefed Cheney VP asked Kay to look into whether Iraq sent its
WMD to Syria or Bekka Valley Lebanon
Jul 28 Bush’s State of Union said Iraq wasn’t disarming and hiding its programs from UN
inspections Bush said Iraq had 25,000 liters of anthrax enough to make 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin Making sarin and VX gas Had mobile WMD labs Bush asked what 9/11 hijackers could’ve done if given WMD by Iraq Said British learned Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa Said Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes for its nuke program Said Saddam was harboring Al Qaeda members
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Future The aftermath of regime change)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)
Jul 30 Bush admitted Iraq-Africa uranium story should not have been included in his
State of Union speech
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 30 Natl Sec Adv Rice said Saddam was a threat and he had WMD Said Iraq was buying all kinds
of equipment for centrifuges including aluminum tubes
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 31 Report several Iraqi scientists interviewed by US said Saddam had not restarted
its nuclear or WMD programs
Jul 31 National Sec Adv Rice said international intel agencies all agreed with US that Iraq
had WMD US would prove right that Saddam was threat to world
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Aug 5 Rumsfeld said “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence” about Iraq’s
WMD not being found yet
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Aug 7 White House said because Bush used Iraq-Africa uranium deal in State of Union
rest of govt started repeating it
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Aug 9 AP story not much of Powell’s Feb 03 speech to UN on Iraq’s WMD was
proving true
Aug 10 Report British govt said it had independent intel to support Iraq-Africa uranium
deal after US said story weak Story was false
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Aug 10 Report CIA denied contradictory stories about aluminum tubes White House used
tubes in its first public relations campaign against Iraq claiming it had renewed nuke program
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Aug 11 CIA Dir Tenet issued statement that CIA stood by 2002 National Intel Estimate on Iraq
saying CIA had solid intelligence on Iraq’s WMD and nuclear programs
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Aug 22 Australian intelligence officer testified to parliament Said Iraq’s WMD contained
Claimed US was flooded with disinformation by anti-Saddam Iraqis before the war
Sep 13 Defense Dept official told press Iraq had worked on mobile WMD labs but
inspectors never found them
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Sep 14 Cheney on Meet The Press said that Iraq had WMD Said what US found since invasion
proved Iraq had WMD capabilities Found mobile WMD labs Cheney had been briefed in July by Iraq Survey Group head Kay that no mobile WMD labs had been found Cheney said if Iraq had gotten fissile material it could have built a nuclear bomb in months to a year Said that Iraq’s WMD and nuclear programs would be found
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Sep 14 Report Iraqi scientists said nuclear program scrapped in 90s during UN
inspections
Sep 16 Def Sec Rumsfeld said he believed US intelligence that Iraq had WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Sep 16 Senior Iraqi scientist said WMD programs dismantled by UN inspectors in 90s
Sep 18 Head weapons inspector Blix said he believed Iraq destroyed its WMD in 90s
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
Sep 25 House Intelligence Committee wrote letter to CIA Director Tenet criticizing pre-
war intel on Iraq’s WMD after review
Sep 28 Natl Sec Adv Rice and Sec State Powell said that US had lots of new intel on Iraq’s WMD
since 1998 when inspectors left in response to criticism
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Sep 28 Rice said were always questions about Iraq’s nuke program but no question it had
WMD
Sep 28 Report DIA review found defectors provided by INC invented and exaggerated
info about Iraq’s WMD
Oct 2 Iraq Survey Group released 1st report on WMD search Found no evidence of WMD or mobile
WMD labs Said Saddam hadn’t given up on his WMD programs Found dozens of WMD related activities
Oct 2 Iraq Survey Group head Kay briefed Congress on interim report Said Iraq deception meant US
always uncertain about Iraq’s WMD Found no WMD but evidence of programs No nuclear program No mobile WMD labs Said Saddam never gave up ambitions to have WMD Said that Iraq’s WMD stocks looked like they were destroyed in 1990s after Gulf War Said secret WMD programs were hidden in Iraqi intelligence services for assassinations Said Iraq had produced banned missile types
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
Oct 2 CIA Director Tenet and Deputy Director McLaughlin were reluctant to accept
Kay’s findings Argued over WMD stocks being destroyed aluminum tubes and mobile WMD labs
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Oct 2 White House called CIA asking why finding no WMD could’ve been buried in
Kay’s report instead of being first
Oct 2 Kay testimony led White House to change message from Iraq had WMD stocks to
WMD programs being the threat that justified war
Oct 3 Bush said interim report by Iraq Survey Group justified invasion because found
WMD programs
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Oct 3 National Security Adviser Rice US went to war with Iraq because most likely place
terrorists could get WMD
Oct 3 Report aluminum tubes were one of the main arguments US had Iraq restarted nuke
program but was always contested Senior White House officials claimed Rice knew about differences over tubes Administration overstated argument for tubes
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Oct 8 Bush US went to war with Iraq to deal with future threats with WMD and ties
to terrorism Said found Iraq’s WMD programs
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Oct 10 VP Cheney cited Iraq Survey Group report to claim that Iraq in material breach of UN
resolutions and had WMD programs Said if Saddam still in power he would be training terrorists and producing WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Oct 10 Powell said overwhelming evidence that Iraq violated UN resolutions about its
WMD program
Oct 10 Iraqi diplomat that went to Niger said his trip was about trade and breaking
sanctions not buying uranium for nuke program
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Oct 15 Powell said that his claims about Iraq’s WMD program had been proven
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Oct 26 Iraq Survey Group found aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were not for centrifuges
Pentagon replied group had not finished its analysis
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Oct 26 Report CIA interviewed head of Iraq’s centrifuge program who said Iraq ended
centrifuge work after Gulf War and tubes had nothing to do with it CIA claimed head of Iraq’s centrifuge program was not telling truth about aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Oct 30 Cheney said Iraq had WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Oct 30 Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz said because US had missed so much of
Iraq’s WMD program in 1991 it might have exaggerated them in 2003
Nov 2 Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said both Clinton and Bush administrations believed Iraq had
WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Nov 30 Senior CIA analyst said 2002 Nat Intel Est on Iraq’s WMD lacked specifics on the programs
Dec 1 Iraq physicist book claimed Iraq never rebuilt nuclear program after 90s and US exaggerated
threat Said Iraq never close to building a nuclear bomb
Dec 24 Report President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board found White House disregarded
warnings by CIA about Iraq-Africa uranium story
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
2004
Jan 11 Blair told BBC he didn’t know whether he was wrong or not about Iraq’s WMD
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jan 20 Bush’s State of the Union said Iraq Survey Group found Iraq’s WMD programs and
if US hadn’t invaded Iraq would still have them
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Jan 22 Cheney Iraq had mobile labs and WMD programs Inspections found no mobile
labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 23 Iraq Survey Group head Kay resigned saying didn’t think Iraq had any WMD stocks or
large programs since 1980s Thought Iraq had destroyed its WMD after Gulf War due to inspections and unilateral actions
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
Jan 23 In response to Iraq Survey Group head Kay resigning and saying there were no
WMD White House said it believed Iraq had WMD and it would be found
Jan 24 Iraq Survey Group took Iraqi defector Haideri to sites he claimed were WMD
and found nothing Haideri had been source for US intelligence reports and various newspaper stories Was provided by INC May 02 DIA labeled him a fabricator but his story continued to be used
Jan 25 Ex-Iraq Survey Group Head Kay US intelligence was wrong about state of Iraq’s WMD
Programs Said that intelligence agencies had to answer for how badly they failed Said Iraq tried to restart nuclear program in 2000-01 but didn't get far Iraq had an active biological weapons programs for Iraqi intelligence assassination program US bombing stopped Iraq’s chemical weapons programs in 1990s
(Musings On Iraq How Operation Desert Fox Finished Off Iraq’s WMD Programs)
Jan 26 Powell speech asked why Iraq tried to buy uranium Reference to Iraq-Niger
uranium deal
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jan 27 Ex-Iraq Survey Group head Kay Iraq told UN in 1995 it had destroyed WMD
and nuke program but no one believed them
Jan 28 Ex-Iraq Survey Group’s Kay told Congress everyone wrong about Iraq Said found no stocks
of WMD No mobile WMD labs No WMD factories No nuclear program No connections with Al Qaeda Said CIA had no spies in Iraq Grown addicted to UN inspecdtors in 90s for info Said CIA analysts had become reliant upon assumptions Suffered group think on WMD Said US had to admit to failure on Iraq Called for investigation into intel failure on Iraq Didn’t believe White House pressured intel analysts
Jan 28 White House said that Iraq Survey Group needed more time to make conclusions
about whether Iraq had WMD or not
Jan 28 Hutton Inquiry said Sep 02 dossier on Iraq’s WMD had not been influenced by
political pressure from Blair govt
Jan 29 National Security Adviser Rice said what US predicted about Iraq WMD before war not
what it found afterward Said Saddam deceived US and world about his WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Jan 29 State Dept said failure to find out about Iraq’s WMD was not US failure but
international one
Jan 29 Ex-Iraq Survey Group head Kay told Bush Saddam wanted Iraqis to believe country had
WMD when it didn't Said he thought Saddam destroyed his WMD stocks because too easy to find Bush asked why Saddam didn’t admit he had no WMD Kay said Saddam wanted fear to stop revolts by Shiites and Kurds
Jan 30 CIA and Congressional inquiries no evidence White House pressured US intel on Iraq’s
WMD Congressional committee found CIA relied too much on circumstantial outdated and satellite and intercept intel on Iraq WMD
Feb 2 Powell told WashPost if he knew Iraq had no WMD his decision on Iraq invasion
would have been different
Feb 2 Rumsfeld claimed Iraq Study Group head Kay’s Senate testimony Iraq had
no WMD stocks proved White House case
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Feb 3 Blair agreed to inquiry about pre-war intel on Iraq’s WMD
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Feb 4 Def Sec Rumsfeld told Congress that ex-Iraq Study Group chief David Kay’s conclusion that
everyone was wrong about Iraq’s WMD was just a hypothesis and Iraq’s weapons might be found
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Feb 4 UK intel officer said intel heads ignored warnings that Iraqi WMD could not be
confirmed before invasion
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Feb 5 CIA Dir Tenet gave speech at Georgetown refuting Iraq Survey Group’s Kay claim everyone
was wrong about Iraq’s WMD Said US hadn’t found WMD it was expecting Said CIA might’ve over estimated nuke program Were differences over mobile WMD labs Said discrepenacies had been found with CURVEBALL source for mobile labs story They didn’t exist Natl Intel Est never said Iraq imminent threat Said Saddam dictator intent to build WMD Said didn’t know if Iraq produced WMD Hadn’t found any biological weapons yet Referenced Iraq Foreign Min Sabri who told CIA Iraq had nuke program stockpile of chemical weapons small biological weapons program Said US still needed time to find out about Iraq’s WMD Said in the end CIA would be proven not entirely right or wrong on pre-war Iraq intel
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq How The CIA Ignored Hard Evidence That Iraq No Longer Had Any WMD Programs In 2002 – Part 2)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Feb 6 Bush announced Silberman-Robb commission to look into U.S. pre-war intel
on Iraq’s WMD after none found
Feb 6 Report DIA said CURVEBALL intel on Iraq mobile WMD labs was questionable
in 02 Never passed to rest of intel community
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Feb 7 Bush and Cheney said Iraq war justified because Saddam could have made
WMD Gave up argument he had them
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
Feb 8 After Iraq Survey Group said it found no stockpiles of WMD Bush said they
could still be found and Saddam was still dangerous
Feb 9 Report White House 03 paper on Iraq WMD dropped qualifications and doubts
from 02 Natl Intel Est on Iraq
Feb 10 Report almost all of SecState Powell’s 03 UN speech on Iraq WMD proved wrong
Feb 13 Report CIA review showed it relied upon too many unreliable exile sources for
intel on Iraq’s WMD Included INC defector Haideri May 02 DIA labeled him a fabricator but his story continued to be used
Feb 16 CIA said it still believed Iraqi defector CURVEBALL was credible source for
intel that Iraq had mobile WMD labs Turned out to be false source
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Feb 21 Report US did not brief UN inspectors on 21 of 105 WMD sites in Iraq US claimed
it gave info on all sites
Mar 6 Report US intel dismissed reports that said Iraq had no WMD
Mar 9 CIA Dir Tenet told Senate that he told Cheney trailers found in Iraq were not
conclusive evidence of Iraq WMD Said US intel still unsure about what trailers found in Iraq were used for
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Mar 30 New Iraq Survey Group head Duelfer testified to Congress Said most important work not
done Said still looking for critical Iraqis involved in WMD program Said found equipment to make biological and chemial agents Couldn’t rule out what aluminum tubes were for Contradicted much of what Survey Group discovered 3 top inspectors quit to protest Duelfer’s remarks
Apr 2 Sec State Powell criticized US intel for giving him faulty claims about Iraq’s WMD for his Feb
03 UN speech
Apr 3 Secretary of State Powell said US intelligence gave him questionable intelligence
about Iraq mobile WMD labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Apr 17 3,000 police abandoned posts during insurgent and Sadrist uprisings
May 16 Sec of State Powell some sources on Iraq WMD were inaccurate wrong and
sometimes deliberately misleading
May 17 Report Iraqi defector provided by INC Adnan Haideri’s stories about Iraq WMD
used by US pre-war proved false Iraq Survey Group took Haideri to sites he claimed were used for WMD but proved not to be Was used in CIA, DIA and White House reports White House used Haideri in reports after he’d been labeled fabricator by DIA
May 26 CIA retracted all its reports based upon Iraqi defector CURVEBALL who claimed Iraq had
mobile WMD labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 6 Report in 2000 CIA started program to contact relatives of Iraqi WMD scientists
living in the west to collect intelligence Relatives said no WMD programs Reports were not included in reports nor passed on to White House
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
(Musings On Iraq How The CIA Ignored Hard Evidence That Iraq No Longer Had Any WMD Programs In 2002)
Jul 6 Blair told Parliament that he didn’t know what happened to Iraq’s WMD Said they
could have been hidden or destroyed
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jul 7 Senate Intelligence Committee issued report on US pre-Iraq war intelligence Found
major judgements in Oct 02 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq’s WMD and nuke program were overstated and generally not supported Found US intel claim Iraq had WMD and programs larger than before Gulf War were overstated Said US had evidence Iraq buying dual use equipment Uncertain Iraq had destroyed its WMD stocks after Gulf War Said US intel didn’t have much good info on Iraq’s WMD and nuke programs after UN inspections ended in 1998 Said US intel suffered from group think Assumed Iraq had WMD Assumed everything it did was to expand those programs Said that all of CIA’s claim’s about Iraq renewed nuclear program were wrong and weak to begin with
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jul 9 Iraqi defector Zubaidi claimed INC embellished reports of defectors about Iraq’s WMD INC
denied story
Jul 9 Bush said everyone believed Iraq had stocks of WMD and Saddam wanted those WMD
programs
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
Jul 14 Blair said he expected Iraq’s WMD to be found
Jul 14 Butler Report said UK intel on Iraq WMD based upon worst case scenarios and
exaggerated alleged stockpiles Said UK intel on Iraq WMD was “seriously flawed”
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Jul 19 Carnegie pre-2002 US intel on Iraq WMD generally good 02-03 reporting became more
certain beyond evidence Bush admin misrepresented threat posed by Iraq WMD and nuke program UN inspectors proved accurate that Iraq didn’t have WMD or nuke programs nor stocks
Jul 20 Blair defended Iraq war to parliament saying caveats should have been included
in UK dossier on Iraq WMD
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Aug 18 Iraq Survey Group head Kay testified to Congress Iraq Survey Group was
responsible for finding Iraq’s WMD after invasion Kay blamed National Security Adviser Rice and National Security Council for not checking WMD intel before war
Sep 17 Draft of Iraq Survey Group report said Saddam wanted to produce WMD but had no
stocks or programs Said only WMD Iraq had were poisons for assassinations by Iraqi intelligence
Sep 28 Blair said intelligence on Iraq’s WMD was wrong but getting rid of Saddam was
right
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Sep 30 Iraq Survey Group report said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for
rockets not centrifuges
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Oct 2 Bush said Iraq was a threat because it had WMD
Oct 3 Report aluminum tubes were one of the main arguments US had Iraq restarted nuke
program but was always contested Senior White House officials claimed Rice knew about differences over tubes Administration overstated argument for tubes
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
Oct 6 Iraq Survey Group report said Iraq’s WMD destroyed in 1991 Said no plans to
revive programs when US invaded in 2003 Said Saddam wanted to restart WMD programs after sanctions ended Said Iraq tried to tell west it didn’t have WMD while also hinting that it still did to deter Iran WMD was aimed at Iran
Oct 6 Bush said Iraq didn’t have WMD stocks US intel thought but invasion still right
because Saddam wanted them
Oct 7 Powell said Iraq Survey Group initial report proved Iraq wanted WMD and that
it was a threat
Oct 7 Blair claimed Iraq Survey Group report proved that Saddam wanted WMD
Oct 8 Presidential debate Bush said Iraq invasion absolutely right Iraq was trying to
end sanctions and rebuild WMD programs
Oct 8 Rice said Iraq Survey Group proved Iraq wanted WMD and therefore was a threat
Oct 15 Cheney said Iraq could have given WMD to terrorists
Dec 23 UK intel did review of its 2002 reporting on Iraq’s WMD and said its assessments were all
wrong
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2005
Mar 31 Silbermann-Robb report issued Called US pre-war intel on Iraq one of largest
intelligence failures in US history US intel data on Iraq was worthless and analysis wrong US lacked significant new intel on Iraq WMD so relied on Gulf War and 90s UN inspections and extrapolated from them US relied upon Iraqi defectors that were lying and ignored problems with their stories US relied upon satellite photos that showed nothing substantive US intel claimed Iraq made WMD advances that were technically impossible US intel ignored reports that Iraq no longer had any WMD UN inspectors disproved most of US case against Iraq’s WMD but were ignored CIA had little on Iraq’s nuke program outside of aluminum tubes but became basis for Oct 02 National Intel Est on Iraq’s WMD Tubes Iraq tried to buy were for rockets not centrifuges Example of misinterpretation by US intel Tubes was a technical assessment which CIA failed at Went with assumptions rather than facts CIA never looked at Iraqi rockets to see whether they fit aluminum tubes CIA and DIA created theory on tubes that rejected all criticism British and Australian intelligence didn’t believe aluminum tubes were for centrifuges
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Apr 1 Report White House and CIA leadership created environment where only threat of
Iraq WMD reports were acceptable
Apr 25 Iraq Survey Group responsible for investigating Iraq’s WMD found that Gulf
War and UN sanctions destroyed Iraq’s WMD programs and Saddam didn't try to rebuild them Found no evidence that Iraq’s WMD were sent to Syria
Apr 25 White House spokesman said Iraq Survey Group showed that Saddam wanted
WMD in the future
Jun 20 UK UN diplomat Ross said he saw 4 ½ yrs of intel on Iraq WMD and it didn’t
support Blair’s argument for war
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
Aug 1 Ex-CIA officer claimed spring 01 received intelligence that Iraq had ended its
uranium enrichment program years ago
Oct 30 Italian press speculated that intelligence agency SISMI forged documents
claiming Iraq-Niger uranium deal and shared them with US and UK intelligence
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
Nov 17 Report detailing how INC defector Haideri spread false stories about Iraq
WMD to media and a White House paper
Nov 6 Report Informer Rocco Martino provided fake documents claiming Iraq tried to buy uranium
from Niger to Italian intelligence agency SISMI that then passed along story to US and UK British still claimed they had independent sources of Iraq uranium deal after documents and story were discredited
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
Nov 20 Report on how US relied upon Iraqi defector CURVEBALL for intel on Iraq’s
WMD when they were warned he was unreliable
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
Dec 11 Report French intel told CIA several times in 2002 that no evidence to support Iraq-Niger
uranium story
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
2006
Mar 20 Report 2002 Iraq’s Foreign Min Sabri agreed to work with US Told US intel
Iraq had no biological weapons Had cache of chemical weapons Said Saddam wanted a nuclear bomb
Mar 24 Review of captured Iraqi documents and interviews with Baathists showed reason Saddam
wanted WMD and was unwilling to admit that he’d destroyed them after Gulf War Was because he thought they deterred Iran which he saw as existential threat
Mar 25 Report on captured Iraqi docs said Iraq kept the image it had WMD because
helped Iraq’s image in Arab world and deterred Israel Saddam told his top advisers there were no more WMD Tape Powell played during Feb 03 UN speech was Republican Guard making sure area met UN inspections not hiding WMD
Apr 6 Court documents showed that Cheney told aide to leak intelligence on Iraq trying
to buy uranium from Niger to press to discredit former Ambassador Wilson
Apr 6 Prosecutor claimed Cheney’s Chief of Staff Libby’s leaks to press were part of
campaign to discredit former Ambassador Wilson over Iraq-Niger story
Apr 7 Court papers showed Bush authorized leak of information on Iraq-Niger uranium
story to support administration Prosecutor claimed Cheney Chief of Staff Libby’s leaks to press were part of campaign to discredit fmr Amb Wilson over Iraq-Niger story
Jun 20 Michael Maloof who was on Pentagon’s Policy Counterterrorism Group said Iraq
ran terrorist training camp in Salman Pak with a plane fuselage next to a WMD facility raising fears Iraq giving terrorists WMD Was no active WMD facility at Salman Pak and terrorist training camp story spread by INC before the invasion
Jun 20 Fmr head State Dept Intel Bureau Carl Ford said pre-Iraq war intel showed failure
of tradecraft and analysis of US intel US got reports of things like Iraq-Niger uranium story and aluminum tubes and failed to analyze and question them thoroughly
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
Jun 25 Report CIA officer Drumheller warned Agency before Bush’s Jan 03 State of the
Union and Powell’s Feb 03 UN speech not to use story Iraq had mobile WMD labs Drumheller warned that source of mobile labs story Iraqi named CURVEBALL held by Germans was unstable and story not verified Germans warned CIA that CURVEBALL was unreliable and refused to allow Agency access to him CIA Dir Tenet told Powell it had multiple sources confirming Iraq mobile lab story while preparing Powell’s UN speech but CURVEBALL was only real source Right before Powell’s speech CIA Dir called CIA officer to fact check speech Told Tenet not to use mobile labs claim
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
Sep 15 Report Sept 02 Iraq’s Foreign Min Sabri told CIA Iraq was working on nuclear and WMD
programs Intel was given to White House
2007
Mar 13 Report CURVEBALL source of claim Iraq had mobile WMD was still under German intel
protection living outside Munich Fmr CIA’s Europe ops chief Drumheller claimed he tried to remove CURVEBALL info from Sec State Powell’s Feb 03 UN speech Drumheller claimed he met with Dep CIA Dir McLaughlin to complain about including CURVEBALL in Powell’s speech McLaughlin denied that Powell said he never heard any questions about CURVEBALL before his speech
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
Mar 22 Lord Butler told UK parliament UK and US didn't have conclusive intel on Iraq’s WMD UK
intel said in Aug 02 that it knew little about Iraq’s WMD since 1988 yet Blair told govt intel was extensive and authoritative
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2008
May 19 Fmr Dep Sec Def Feith claimed Iraq’s WMD was a threat Said Iraq had WMD programs and
could have produced WMD in 3-5 wks Wasn’t true
May 30 Fmr White House spokesman McClellan said Bush White House so caught up
in pushing war ignored intel that didn’t fit argument
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
Jun 18 LA Times interviewed CURVEBALL Iraqi defector in Germany who claimed Iraq had mobile
WMD labs Claimed everything he said was true and he should be treated like a king for helping overthrow Saddam Labs didn’t exist
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
Dec 18 Congressman Waxman released memo saying Natl Sec Adv Rice and Atny Gen Gonzalez
misled Congress about Bush claiming Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa in his 02 State of the Union Rice claimed she didn’t know CIA objected to the story when her staff was warned 4 times not to use it Gonzalez lied to Senate saying CIA approved Bush using story twice when it didn’t
2009
Jul 2 Report FBI interview with Saddam from 06 released Saddam said he never fully cooperated
with UN inspectors because had to maintain image Iraq had WMD to deter Iran
Nov 25 Sir William Ehrman director of international security at Foreign Office testified to Chilcot
Inquiry Said British intel on Iraq WMD was spotty before the invasion
Nov 25 Tim Dowse head of counterproliferation at Foreign Office testified to Chilcot Inquiry that
no evidence Iraq was going to give its WMD to terrorists Thought Iraq’s nuke program dismantled by inspectors in 90s
Nov 25 England got intel report that Iraq’s chemical weapons had been dismantled Dismissed
because British thought Iraq was lying and hiding its WMD
Dec 8 Chilcot Inquiry MI6 analyst Hollow said claim Iraq could launch WMD in 45 min came from
Iraqi officer that heard it from a taxi cab driver Said MI6 had questions about info used in Sep 03 dossier on Iraq but Downing St pushed for it to be used
Dec 8 Chilcot Inquiry UK Joint Intel Com chief Scarlett said Iraq had no missiles that could reach
Israel and none that could carry WMD as Blair govt claimed He rejected claim Iraq could launched WMD in 45 mins
Dec 8 Chilcot Inquiry Sir Ehrman fmr dir intl sec at Foreign Office said intel on Iraq WMD always
questionable UK thought Iraq still working on WMD in 2002 but intel was poor
2010
Jan 18 Fmr UK Defense Intel analyst said that his unit always argued against certainty that Iraq had
WMD stockpiles but their opinion overturned by senior officials
Jan 18 PM Blair’s chief of staff Powell testified to Chilcot Inquiry Said motivation for Iraq war
assumption Iraq had WMD Was not based upon intel but history with Saddam Were shocked when no WMD found after war
Jan 21 Sir Omand PM Blair’s security coordinator told Chilcot Inquiry that claim Iraq could deploy
WMD in 45 mins was just asking for trouble Said if all UK intel on Iraq was made public it wouldn’t have impressed anyone Said intel was shaped to make case for war and that was a mistake Believed UK security establishment had group think that stopped them from questioning whether Iraq had WMD Blamed Blair’s Communications Dir Campbell for plagiarizing college student’s journal paper on Iraq and releasing it as official document
Oct 4 Report Govt docs showed Bush and Blair govt coordinated statements about Iraq US told UK
officials to remove anything from Sep 02 WMD dossier that might contradict US claims UK went through US white paper on Iraq UK included some claims about WMD because US said them
2011
May 12 PM Blair’s communication dir Campbell told Chilcot Inquiry Sep 02 WMD dossier was not
case for war vs Iraq but why Blair concerned about Saddam Min of Defense dir of general intelligence Gen Laurie said dossier was to promote war Said previous drafts rejected because didn’t make strong enough case vs Iraq Said Defense Min under pressure to get more on Iraq to make argument for war Said in final draft every point was edited to make it as strong as possible Said conclusion of dossier was not supported by intel
May 20 Report Sr UK intel official told Chilcot Inquiry intel agencies fought Blair govt over
WMD dossier Govt docs showed qualifications were dropped Cabinet wanted to make strong possible argument Iraq a threat
May 21 PM Blair’s Communications Dir Campbell rejected intel official who said Iraq WMD dossier
was meant to advocate for war It was
May 31 Report Foreign Sec Straw Sec State Powell met in NY city Feb 2002 Straw worried
statements by PM Blair and Bush on Iraq’s WMD couldn’t be proved Said lack of supporting evidence Much of intel was assumptions and assessments with little hard facts Powell had same concern Powell worried about Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans and Dep Def Sec Wolfowitz Said intel he saw at CIA was circumstantial Hoped that when facts were revealed claims would not blow up in their faces
2013
2013 Report Chilcot Inquiry found UK intel told Blair early 02 Iraq had little WMD and Libya greater
threat Said threat came from Iraqi scientists with know how Intel officials said Blair wanted stronger argument vs Iraq than WMD Mar 02 intel report said Iraq couldn’t build a nuclear bomb with sanctions
2023
Mar 28 Report Claims Iraq wanted to be ambiguous over whether it had WMD to deter
Iran and that secular Saddam wouldn’t work with Islamist Al Qaeda persist but not true Iraq tried to hide its WMD from inspectors When started to come clean UN and US believed that proved Iraq hiding its programs and punished it to try to get more info but backfired Made Iraq not want to cooperate
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