Iraq disarmament crisis

Former senior Iraqi gereral, Georges Sada, has reported that in late 2002, Saddam ordered that all the stockpiles of WMD were to be moved to Syria. On January 25, 2006 on Hannity & Colmes on Fox News, the former number 2 officer in the Iraqi Air Force stated: Well, I want to make it clear, very clear to everybody in the world that we had the weapon of mass destruction in Iraq, and the regime used them against our Iraqi people. It was used against Kurds in the nort ...

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Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, several reported finds of chemical weapons were announced. During the invasion itself, there were half a dozen incidents in which the US military announced that it had found chemical weapons. All of these claims were based on field reports, and were later retracted. After the war, many cases — most notably on April 7, 2003 when several large drums tested positive — continued to be reported in the same way. Another such post-war case occurred on January 9, 2004, when Icelandic munitions experts and ...

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In late 2002 Saddam Hussein, in a letter to Hans Blix, invited UN weapons inspectors back into the country. Subsequently the Security Council issued resolution 1441 authorizing new inspections in Iraq. The carefully-worded U.N. resolution put the burden on Iraq, not U.N. inspectors, to prove that they no longer had weapons of mass destruction. The US claimed that Iraq's weapons report which was filed with the U.N. leaves weapons and materials unaccounted for; the Iraqis claimed that it was destroyed, something that had been confirmed ...

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In 1998, UN weapons inspectors left Iraq, stating that the Iraqi authorities were not cooperating [20]. In June, 1999, Ritter responded to an interviewer saying: "When you ask the question, 'Does Iraq possess militarily viable biological or chemical weapons?' the answer is no! It is a resounding NO. Can Iraq produce today chemical weapons on a meaningful scale? No! Can Iraq produce biological weapons on a meaningful scale? No! Ballistic missiles? No! It is 'no' across the board. So from a qualitative standpoint, Iraq has been disarme ...

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Plame affair - Regarding Wilson's trip to Niger. Wilson was criticized by the Senate Select Committee on PreWar Intelligence alleging, wrongly, that he claimed his trip to Niger proved that Iraq was not seeking uranium from Niger. A former Minister of Niger told Wilson, that he, during an OAU minister meeting in Algiers in 1999, had an informal meeting with an official from Iraq, who wanted to talk about "trade" between the two countries. But their talk never came to any clear topic. The Minister let all matters ...

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General Paul E. Vallely has criticized Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald on FOX News for not contacting a number of people who publicly stated they knew of Plame's job at the CIA. "Many of us as private citizens really challenged the depth and the extensiveness of Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald because he never called in Joe Wilson or Valerie Plame, who was an analyst by the way, and that's documented, or any of the hierarchy of the CIA. And so to me that's an incomplete process and should probably be null and void. ...

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There are many questions surrounding the allegations of illegality by Karl Rove, Lewis Libby, and perhaps other administration officials. These officials are potentially vulnerable under a number of federal laws relating to disclosure of Plame's identity, along with laws against perjury, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice. The unusual circumstances of this case led a number of media organizations to file a friend-of-the-court (amicus curiae) brief on behalf of the journalists who were subpoenaed (Matthew Cooper, Judith Mill ...

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Plame affair - White House reactions. In the beginning the White House called the allegation that Rove disclosed classified information "totally ridiculous" and "simply not true," and stated that "if anyone in this administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this administration."[114] [115][116][117] The White House continued to publicly assert that no Bush administration officials were involved in the leak until after the Supreme Court decision of 2005, the subsequent release of internal TIM ...

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On October 28, 2005, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald issued a five-count indictment[111] (PDF) of Libby on felony charges of perjury, making false statements to FBI agents and obstruction of justice for impeding the Federal grand jury investigating the CIA leak case. Libby has not been indicted for the actual leaking of Plame's name to Robert Novak. While Fitzgerald did indicate that further indictments are possible, he indicated his understanding that this would be a rare occurrence, once a grand jury has been dismissed. However, Karl Rove's attorneys did indicate that their client is still a ...

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The population density (342 per km²) is one of the highest in Europe, after the Netherlands and some smaller countries such as Monaco. The areas with the highest population density are around the Brussels-Antwerp-Ghent-Leuven agglomerations, also known as the Flemish Diamond, as well as other important urban centres as Liège, Charleroi, Kortrijk, Bruges, Hasselt and Namur. The Ardennes have the lowest density. As of 2005, the Flemish Region has a population of about 6,043,161, Wallonia 3,395,942 and Brussels 1,006,749.See also:

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Beginning in late 2002, and in the context of the War on Terrorism (a consequence of the September 11, 2001 attacks), the United States began an international campaign for stricter sanctions and regime change in Iraq because of questions about its former actions and its current capability to create weapons of mass destruction ("WMD"). The U.S. led an effort for renewed sanctions through the U.N. as a response to what it said was Iraqi intransigence and refusal to allow thorough, randomly conducted weapons inspections; the U.S. demanded that ...

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Plame affair - CIA calls for leak investigation. On September 26, 2003, the CIA requested that the Justice Department investigate the matter.[51] Karl Rove was identified by the New York Times in connection to the Plame leak on 2 October 2003, in an article that both highlighted Attorney General John Ashcroft's employment of Rove in three previous political campaigns, and pointed to Ashcroft's potential conflict of interest in investigating Rove. Ashcroft's subsequent recusal lead to the appointment of U.S ...

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While the breaking of Valerie Plame's cover as a CIA employee may be regarded as serious in and of itself, there has been debate over the damage caused by the leak, and the areas into which that damage may extend, particularly in relation to Plame's work with her cover company, Brewster Jennings & Associates. Legal filings by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald contain many pages blanked out for security reasons, leading some observers to speculate that Fitzgerald has pursued the extent to which national security was compromised by ...

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The Plame affair has generated more than one conspiracy theory. Plame affair - CIA conspiracy. A series of events (including reports Wilson openly talked of his wife's CIA job) have led critics of Plame/Wilson to view the Plamegate affair as a covert CIA operation by a rogue agent (or perhaps Agency) designed to pull down a sitting president. [217] Plame's husband is thought to have played a key role by "misrepresenting" the intelligence he gathered on his trip to Niger. Wilson learned the former prime min ...

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Iraq and weapons of mass destruction - Invasion of Kuwait. The invasion was widely condemned and overnight the policy of the United States against the government of Saddam Hussein seemed to change. As fresh horror stories from the occupation of Kuwait, some of which later proved false, came into the spotlight, older atrocities, such as the gassing of Halabja, were also given attention. As the vilification of Saddam Hussein proceeded, his arsenal of non-conventional weapons also began gaining attention. Iraq a ...

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In the ceasefire terms Iraq was forbidden from developing, possessing or using chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Other items proscribed by the treaty included missiles with a range of more than 150 kilometres. The relevant Security Council resolutions are number 686 and 687: 686 (2 March 1991): Iraq-Kuwait Affirms the "independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq" and sets out t ...

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The United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) was headed by Rolf Ekéus and later Richard Butler. Between 1991 and 1995, UN inspectors uncovered a massive program to develop biological and nuclear weapons and a large amount of equipment was confiscated and destroyed. The al-Hakam germ warfare center, headed by the British-educated Iraqi biologist Dr. Rihab Rashid Taha, was blown up by UNSCOM in 1996. According to a 1999 report from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, the normally mild-mannered Taha exploded into violent rages when ...

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Iraq and weapons of mass destruction - Use of chemical weapons by the British. The first documented use of WMD's in Iraq was in the early 1920s. Winston Churchill, then member of the British government, ordered chemical bombardment of "recalcitrant" Shia villages. This took place before the 1925 Geneva Protocol, banning chemical and biological weapons. Iraq and weapons ...

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The specious appearance of compliance with inspections stipulated under UN Resolution and the threat of operational, banned WMD in the hands of Saddam Hussein was given as the chief of several reasons for the decision of the United States to invade Iraq and topple his government in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The same justification was used by the government of the United Kingdom. However, on October 6, 2004, the head of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), Charles Duelfer, announced to the United States Senate Armed Services Committee that the group ...

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The distinction between the characterization of the foreign forces as occupiers or liberators has become a matter of dispute in itself (see 2003 occupation of Iraq), as well as a matter of domestic concern within the United States. Nominally, the occupation ended on June 28, 2004, but those who question the legitimacy of the US-appointed interim government believe it continued. Indeed, the expulsion of occupation forces is a major stated aim of Iraqi guerilla fighters. U.S. president Bush disagreed with the rationale of the insurgents, claiming that "...what is causing vio ...

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1995 - January-February. January 1 - Fred West, English serial killer (suicide) (b. 1941) January 1 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) January 2 - Siyad Barre, former President of Somalia. January 7 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926) January 9 - Peter Cook, English comedian and writer (b. 1937) January 18 - Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903) January 18 - Ron Luciano, baseball ump ...

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Politically-motivated euphemism like this is reminiscent of anti-German sentiment during the First World War, when sauerkraut was renamed liberty cabbage, and hamburgers, liberty steaks. (Even the German measles got a new name: liberty measles.) This similarity is intentional: Rowland described a conversation about these renamed foods during World War I as the inspiration for "freedom fries." Previous attempts to rename food during wartime have been largely unsuccessful, with one notable exception being the change of frankfurter to hot dog during World War II; although frankfurt ...

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