Blix: War evidence was faked (NY Daily News)

posted by admin on Sunday April 13, @07:44PM

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April 13, 2003

Blix: War evidence was faked

"...UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix accused the U.S. and Britain of "fabricating" evidence against Iraq to justify the war, according to a published report.

"There is evidence that this war was planned well in advance," the Spanish daily El Pais quoted Blix as saying in an interview. "Sometimes this raises doubts about their attitude to the [weapons] inspections."

Blix said Iraq was paying "a very high price ... in terms of human lives and the destruction of a country" when the threat of banned weapons could have been contained by inspections.

He said he believed that finding weapons of mass destruction had been made less crucial than toppling Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, according to the paper's account..."

http://www.nydailynews.com/04-13-2003/news/wn_repo rt/story/75068p-69418c.html

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"Financial Times on Fake evidence in Iraq"

http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=030412 001079&query;=US+engineers+draw&vsc;_appId=totalSear ch&state;=Form

April 12th, 2003

"...the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime without its firing a single one of the WMD it allegedly possessed has raised the question of why it would have had them if it was not prepared to use them.

Equally mystifying has been the process of amassing evidence to justify the war. This has been marked by the exposure of glaring factual errors in intelligence reports and evidence of government pressure being exerted on intelligence services to find suitable proof.

Evidence presented by Tony Blair, prime minister, detailed alleged Iraqi efforts to buy uranium from Niger.

Mohamed ElBaradei, IAEA director-general, told the UN Security Council on March 7 that the documents sub-stantiating the claim were fake and that "these specific allegations are un-founded".
Evidence presented by US officials that suggested Iraq had sought to buy aluminium tubes for use in centrifuges for the uranium enrichment process, has also been dismissed...

...The US is assembling a team of its own inspectors, though weapons experts doubt that their finds will be regarded with the credibility of any made by a UN team...""

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