Wednesday, July 07, 2004

WASHINGTON -- Some damning evidence has been uncovered by the U.S. government committee looking into Washington's pre-war intelligence on Iraq.

Before the war, the CIA was told by relatives of Iraqi scientists that Baghdad's programs to develop unconventional weapons had been abandoned.

However, the CIA failed to pass on that nugget of information to U.S. President Bush.

That's despite Bush's steady warnings of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction."

The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence plans to release a wide-ranging report this week on the first phase of its inquiry.

The report is expected to contain a scathing indictment of the CIA and its leaders for failing to recognize the evidence they had didn't justify their assessment that Hussein had illicit weapons.

http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=38ead92b-c455-42d7-9a5c-643a6f8a3762

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