Colin Powell demands answers over Curveball's WMD lies
Colin Powell, the US secretary of state at the time of the Iraq invasion, has called on the CIA and Pentagon to explain why they failed to alert him to the unreliability of a key source behind claims of Saddam Hussein's bio-weapons capability. Responding to the Guardian's revelation that the source, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi or "Curveball" as his US and German handlers called him, admitted fabri
Defector admits to WMD lies that triggered Iraq war
The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons programme has admitted for the first time that he lied about his story, then watched in shock as it was used to justify the war. Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed Curveball by German and American intelligence officials who dealt with his claims, has told the Guardian that he fabricated tales of mobile bioweap
パウエル元米国務長官：「イラク戦争は避けられた」 - 毎日ｊｐ(毎日新聞)
【ワシントン草野和彦】イラク戦争開戦時（０３年３月）の米国務長官のコリン・パウエル氏（７３）が、毎日新聞の電話でのインタビューに応じた。元長官は「戦争は避けることができた」と述べ、旧フセイン政権の大量破壊兵器（ＷＭＤ）の存在に関する情報が間違っていたことを「極めて残念だ」と強調した。イラク戦争を巡り、ブッシュ前政権の高官が戦争が回避できたと踏み込んで発言するのは極めて異例だ。パウエル氏は、今月末にイラク駐留米軍が戦闘任務を終了させるのにあわせ、毎日新聞のインタビューに応じた。 国連安保理は０２年１１月、イラクにＷＭＤの査察受け入れを求める決議を採択。元長官は０３年２月に国連安保理で、ＷＭＤ開発継続などの「新証拠」を提示し、米国は決議違反を根拠に開戦した。だが米情報機関の判断は０５年、ほぼ完全に誤りと分かった。 元長官は、事前にＷＭＤがないと判明していれば「個人的な見解として、米国は戦争をし
Experts call for David Kelly inquest
A group of prominent legal and medical experts today called for a full inquest into the death of the government scientist David Kelly in 2003. An inquest was suspended by Lord Falconer, then lord chancellor, before the Hutton inquiry into the circumstances of the scientist's death. It was not resumed after Hutton's report in 2004 concluded that Kelly killed himself by cutting an artery in his wris
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イラク開戦：「正当性なかった」当時の米国連大使認める - 毎日ｊｐ(毎日新聞)
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