From Beginning, Knight Ridder Was Right on Iraq Nukes

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By E&P Staff

Published: October 04, 2004 3:00 PM EDT

NEW YORK In Sunday's 10,000-word New York Times probe of how the Bush administration misled the public on evidence of Iraq's prewar nuclear capabilites, the newspaper also described, in brief, how the Times itself had mishandled much of the same evidence. (See E&P story.)

The self-criticism in the Sunday Times report focused mainly on a period in the late summer and early fall of 2002 when an internal split developed among officials and experts on whether those now-famous "aluminum tubes" could be used in making nuclear weapons. The Times story admitted that the newspaper had played down, buried or, at times, ignored that debate.

It is interesting to read, therefore, the text of an October 4, 2002, story by Jonathan Landay of Knight Ridder's Washington bureau, who was consistently more skeptical of official claims than most of his colleagues in the press during the prewar period. His article, titled, "CIA report reveals analysts' split over extent of Iraqi nuclear threat," follows.

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WASHINGTON -- The CIA released a new report Friday on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction that added little to earlier appraisals but exposed a sharp dispute among U.S. intelligence experts over Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program.

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[nyhuskyfan]

1. A MUST READ

A very important article -- it debunks the myth that Bush was merely going on faulty intelligence when he made the decision to go to war. It takes us back to the time before the war, where some intelligence officials stated their beliefs that Iraq had not reconstituted much of anything since the first Gulf War.

This one needs to make the rounds. Everywhere.

[mom cat]

2. Thanks! I sent it along to my circle.

:yourock:

[JoFerret]

3. CIA - no links between Saddam and Islamic terrorists

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/politics/9836114.htm

[gadem04]

4. That says it all

except for that one thing we all know about. We need to get it out there.