Iraqi defector behind America's WMD claims exposed as 'out-and-out

[tandot]

Iraqi defector behind America's WMD claims exposed as 'out-and-out fabricator'

Did any other media outlet report on that?

I am sorry if this is a dupe.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=506112


The case for war against Iraq was dealt another embarrassing blow yesterday due to claims by an American newspaper that the first-hand intelligence source on Saddam Hussein's alleged mobile bioweapons labs was a politically motivated Iraqi defector now dismissed as an "out-and-out fabricator".

The mobile labs, since exposed by weapons inspectors as hydrogen production facilities at best and phantoms at worst, were one of the centrepieces of the US Secretary of State Colin Powell's prewar address to the United Nations. As recently as January, Vice President Dick Cheney maintained that discovery of the labs would provide "conclusive" proof that Iraq possessed WMD.

A detailed investigation in the Los Angeles Timesrevealed that the source claiming to have seen mobile bioweapons labs was the brother of one of the senior aides to Ahmed Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi National Congress, who recently boasted how the erroneous information provided by his group achieved his long-cherished goal of toppling Saddam.

[Zynx]

1. Have any of our sources NOT been discredited?

Seriously, it seems all of our WMD sources were bogus.

[tandot]

3. You are right, Zynx. It just seems that those reports are not news worthy

to any of the regular news media.

I think lots of people have to see news like this over and over again. Too many people still think that our Iraq crusade was worth it.

[Dudley_DUright]

2. The very first rule of intelligence analysis is don't trust

people with a huge political ax to grind. The is a textbook case of a person that you would not credit with much reliability.

[Tempest]

4. Big article in L.A. Times

http://makeashorterlink.com/?V471120E7

[HFishbine]

5. Paging Judith Miller. Come in Judith Miller.

Your reputation is calling.