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Fox News analyst: ‘Very high probability’ Iraq hid WMDs in Syria
A Fox News military analyst who has previously justified the U.S. invasion in Iraq by asserting that Russia conspired to hide Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) now says that there is a “very high probability” that those WMDs are in Syria. Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Friday…
Rep. Barbara Lee commemorates 10th anniversary of ‘reckless and short-sighted’ Iraq war
Speaking on the floor of the House on Tuesday to mark the 10th anniversary of America’s invasion of Iraq, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) gave a somber postmortem on the war she’s consistently opposed, warning her colleagues to never forget the Bush administration’s tactics in the country’s rush to a needless…
Rep. Tom Cotton: Iraq ‘was a just and noble war’
A Republican congressman who served in Iraq and Afghanistan on Sunday looked back at the Iraq war and declared that it was a “just and noble war.” During an interview on CNN, host Candy Crowley asked Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) for his views on the war 10 years after the…
U.S. spying still under shadow of Iraq intelligence failures
US spy agencies still live under the shadow of disastrous intelligence failures that paved the way for the Iraq war, and now face a crucial test as they track Iran’s nuclear program. In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq 10 years ago, the CIA and other intelligence services confidently…
U.N. watchdog worries about Gaddafi’s uranium stock
The UN atomic watchdog has told Libya to urgently find a home for yellow cake uranium from the Moamer Kadhafi era left in thousands of deteriorating barrels, a UN envoy said Thursday. Kadhafi renounced efforts to make weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear bombs, in 2003, but a major storage base with the raw uranium was found…
Romney: Bush wouldn’t have invaded Iraq if he knew there were no WMD
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney insisted on Wednesday that President George W. Bush would never have invaded Iraq if he had known that were no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the country. “If we knew at the time of our entry into Iraq that there were no weapons of…
Suspect admits plotting to attack U.S. military facility
LOS ANGELES — A 32-year-old man pleaded guilty Thursday to plotting to attack a US military processing center for new soldiers in the northwestern city of Seattle, officials said. Walli Mujahidh admitted conspiracy to murder officers and agents of the United States, conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and…
Saudi Arabia may join nuclear arms race: ex-spy chief
Saudi Arabia may consider acquiring nuclear weapons to match regional rivals Israel and Iran, its former intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal said on Monday. “Our efforts and those of the world have failed to convince Israel to abandon its weapons of mass destruction, as well as Iran… therefore it is…
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