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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 5 februar 2003 / Time Line February 5, 2003

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02/05/2003
To danske F16-fly har kastet bomber i Afghanistan, noterer Information.

02/05/2003
USAs udenrigsminister Colin Powell foredrager i FNs sikkerhedsråd 'om Irakiske masseødelæggelsesvåben'.

02/05/2000
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell talks in the the UN Security Council on 'Iraqi weapons of mass destruction'.
Powell presents US case to Security Council of Iraq's failure to disarm
Secretary Powell addressing the Security Council
UN News Centre, 5 February 2003 – Armed with satellite images, transcripts of intercepted telephone conversations and other intelligence data, United States Secretary of State Colin Powell today presented the United Nations Security Council with what he called "solid" evidence that showed Iraq still has not complied with resolutions calling for it to disarm.
"My colleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence," Mr. Powell told the ministerial-level session of the 15-member body. Before hearing Mr. Powell's presentation, the Council members decided to grant Iraq's request to allow its representative sit at the Council table and make a statement at the end of the meeting.
The US Secretary of State stressed that Iraq still poses a threat and remains in "material breach" of Council resolutions. "Indeed, by its failure to seize its one last opportunity to come clean and disarm, Iraq has put itself in deeper material breach and close to the day when it will face serious consequences for its continued defiance of this Council," he said. "We must not fail in our duty and our responsibility to the citizens of our countries."...
Literature: The Lies that Led to the Iraq War and the Persistent Myth of ‘Intelligence Failure’. / : Jeremy R. Hammond. Foreign Policy Journal, September 8, 2012.
National Security Archive: Foreign Policy Features CIA Document Released to National Security Archive : "A Classified Mea Culpa on Iraq" : CIA Analysis Acknowledges Intelligence Failure on Iraq's WMDs.
'Washington, DC, September 5, 2012 – The online magazine ForeignPolicy.com today published an extraordinary CIA document on the recent Iraq war which the National Security Archive obtained through a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request to the CIA.'
- http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20120905/
CIA: Misreading Intentions: Iraq’s Reaction to Inspection Created Picture of Deception”, 2006.
- http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20120905/CIA-Iraq.pdf

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