"untold stories of those who died during the war on Iraq".
The Independent was more aggressive and mentioned some MP's, who said, that "the Prime Minister and Alastair Campbell should be forced to appear before a parliamentary committee to explain why the intelligence dossier produced in March last year was shelved.
The six-page report, from the Joint Intelligence Committee staff, said there was no evidence Saddam posed a significantly greater threat than in 1991.
It was written in the same month that Mr Campbell, the Prime Minister's communications
and strategy chief, told journalists in America the Government would produce
evidence within two weeks proving Saddam was building weapons of mass destruction.
The report was delayed, but six months later Tony Blair said Saddam was continuing
to produce chemical and biological weapons."
In another story, "Wheels Fall Off Iraq WMD 'Mobile Labs'",
the Independent cited Cees Wiebes, a leading Dutch expert who spoke to senior intelligence officials on both sides of the Atlantic before the war, who said "many of them told him the WMD evidence was "very, very poor".
The paper also mentioned german UN Inspector Bernd Birkicht, who believed the "CIA had made up intelligence on WMD to provide a legal basis for the war":
"We received information about a site, giving the exact geographical co-ordinates, and when we got there we found nothing," said Mr Birkicht. "Nothing on the ground. Nothing under the ground. Just desert." He added that a "decontamination truck" in satellite photographs presented by Mr Powell to the Security Council was a fire engine. Another leading expert, Dr Richard Aldrich is cited that "as much as 70 per cent of MI6's intelligence comes from the US."
BBC ('Iraq war 'could have been illegal') described, that the Foreign Affairs Select Committee around Lord Goldsmith are going to look into "claims that Iraq's WMD threat had been "sexed up" by Downing Street.
The article also mentioned the lawyer group "Campaign for Nuclear Disarment" (CND) around Philip Shiner, who said in a BBC interview, "that there are no WMD or if they exist it's in nothing like the quantities that suggest that the threat was so clear."
On the website of the CND you will find information, that Tony Blair, Geoff
Hoon (Defence Secretary) and Jack Straw have already been served with legal
papers on an investigation "for war crimes and crimes against humanity" and
refer to another website called IraqWarcrimes.org
The Daily
Mirror found out, that some Tories have already "demanded the resignation
of
Mr Campbell", who is "director of strategy and communications at No10".
Shadow chancellor Michael Howard said: "If the stories are true, there is no doubt at all he should go and go immediately.".
In the United States, some papers mentioned the criticism, a few of them even
on Page 1.
Newsday reported in their article "Hunt for Iraqi Banned Weapons Slows", "weapons hunters say they are now waiting for a large team of Pentagon intelligence experts to take over the effort".
Other voices worldwide:
South African Daily News reported on the "shelved dossier" by british MI5-chief Alastair Campbell.
The German DER SPIEGEL picked up today's NY
Times story on CIA-leaks
from Al-Quaeda leaders, who stated, that there haven't been any ties at all
between Iraq and Al-Quaeda.
In yet another title story, DER SPIEGEL reported on four US-Democrats, who decided to use Iraqgate for their election campaign:
Howard Dean ("What did the President know and at which time?"),
Dennis Kucinich ("You send us into war, which we shouldn't have started at all"), Carol Moseley Braun ("Billions of Dollars are spent for Iraq, but the main suspects from Sep11th are still not captured") and finally the loudest candidate Bob Graham ("Hoax and Forgery").
Today they got even more support by Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, who called for an
independent prosecutor on the WMD-evidence.
Almost every progressive and independent newszine on the Internet is covering
the "hyped", "manipulated" or even "rigged Iraq Evidence" (MI5 Dossier, Satellite
Images etc..), many of them tie it all back to the horrific Sep11th attacks
- which also has many problems with evidence and maniplulation of the inteligence
agencies - and have come to the conclusion, that this attack was already part
of the plan (LIHOP=
they let it happen on purpose) or even an inside job, mainly orchestrated by
members of PNAC and current members of the National Defense Panel with direct
or indirect help by Pakistan and Saudi Arabian Intelligence.
InformationClearing
House mirrored
the results of a new Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) Knowledge
Networks poll, which found, that "59% of those polled correctly said the US has
not found Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, 41% said they believed that the
US has found such weapons (34%) or were unsure (7%)".
Meanwhile, a test at google using "Iraqgate" has many references to Gulf
War
1, while "Iraqgate 2003" reveals the newer articles.
One of the harshest voices among US-Journalists is Paul Krugman (NY Times), who
recently said that
the scandal blowing up over Iraq is "worse than Watergate, worse than Iran-contra".
Maxspeak.org is mentioning the "Institute for Policy Studies", which described
an Iraq War, a long time ago, even before Sep11th:
"Crude Vision: How Oil Interests Obscured U.S. Government Focus on Chemical Weapons Use by Saddam Hussein.".
The document is also described at the Institute for Policy Studies.
To be updated and continued...
Night Ticker Updates:
Taiwan- THE OBSERVER -Monday, Jun 09, 2003,Page 1
Evidence casts doubt on germ-lab claims
DUBIOUS INTELLIGENCE: The units thought to have been designed to produce biological agents may actually have been part of a system the UK sold Iraq in 1987
US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair face a fresh crisis over Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, as evidence emerges that two vehicles that they have repeatedly claimed to be Iraqi mobile biological warfare production units are nothing of the sort.
The British intelligence agency MI6, defense officers and technical experts from the Porton Down microbiological research establishment have been ordered to conduct an urgent review of the mobile facilities, following US analysis which casts serious doubt on whether they really are germ labs.
The British review comes amid doubts expressed by scientists on both sides of the Atlantic that the trucks could have been used to make biological weapons..."
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