Another Iraq Claim debunked. Has this been covered?

[Armstead]

This was on the front page of our local newspaper from the Washington Post, but I haven't seen or heard of it elsewhere. But I haven;t seen much TV in the last couple of days.

If not, why not? Ooops. Silly question....But I hope Kerry (or one of his surrogates) grabs ahold of this.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30909-2004Jul31.html

Al Qaeda-Iraq Link Recanted
Captured Libyan Reverses Previous Statement to CIA, Officials Say
By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 1, 2004; Page A20


An al Qaeda commander who initially told interrogators that Iraq had provided chemical and biological weapons training to the terrorist organization later told CIA officers his statement was not true, according to intelligence officials.

Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a Libyan captured in Pakistan on Nov. 11, 2001, later "changed his story, and we're still in the process of trying to determine what's right and what's not right" from his information, a senior U.S. intelligence official said yesterday. "He told us one thing at one time and another at another time."

Al-Libi's statement formed the basis for the Bush administration's prewar claim that Osama bin Laden collaborated with Iraq, according to several U.S. officials.

In an October 2002 speech in Cincinnati, for example, President Bush said: "We've learned that Iraq has trained al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and gases." Other senior administration officials, including Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in a speech to the United Nations, made similar assertions. Al-Libi's statements were the foundation of all of them.

His about-face has not been made public by the CIA or the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which produced a critical investigation of the intelligence community's prewar information on Iraq. The committee describes the case in pages of its report that the CIA refused to declassify.

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[Media_Lies_Daily]

1. Interesting that CLASSIFIED portions of the report are being leaked....

...I wonder who could be doing that? :evilgrin:

[NewHampshireDem]

2. I'm sure O'Reilly, Hannity, and the rest at Faux will make sure

that they admit their mistake and get the word out on this story. I mean, who would want that kind of ... irresponsibility to damage their reputations. :eyes:

[Karmadillo]

3. We're, uh, at, uh, war, yeah, so, like, let's focus on unity, not, uh,

disunity. The reason, uh, this story isn't, kind of, important is TERROR ALERT!!!! What was I going to say? Oh yeah. Unity, not DEAD WOMAN IN UTAH!!! I mean, the point, if I may be, uh, so bold, GARCIAPARRA PLAYING FOR THE CUBS!!!!! So, like, there. Rebut that, commie.

[Windtalker]

4. R U surprised!!!

[Karenina]

5. Somebody LIED???

I'm SHOCKED! SIMPLY SHOCKED! His lyin' ass couldn't be checked out cuz nobody, ABSOLUTELY NOBODY ever imagined anyone flying airplanes into high-rise buildings! 'Sama und 'Hsein be da bestest o' buds go WAY BACK!! :eyes:

[Straight Shooter]

6. See? Not bush's fault. Just faulty intelligence.

Excuse me while I go run my head into the wall.

:mad:

[bread_and_roses]

8. I know just how you feel (n/t)

[soothsayer]

7. The guy's name is alibi?

What a coincidence!

[Armstead]

9. It would be interesting to measure the timing of his retractions..

How much do any flip flops correspond with any administration claims, before or after?

[Jacobin]

10. Attach electrodes to somebody's nuts and they'll say whatever you

want them to.

[Armstead]

11. kick

:kick: