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...through an aide declined to comment, raised concern in the memo that the panel might have either been misled or kept in the dark by intelligence agency witnesses who had suddenly begun touting Iraq-al Qaeda links - like those cited by Secretary of State Colin Powell in his UN Security Council presentation, shortly before Reyes sent the memo - after a year of closed-door testimony that evidence of such links amounted to "none or very little if we stretch" the intelligence, the source said...
...Iraq, he has told U.S. legislators. Instead, he's expected to offer evidence in support of the argument that whether or not Saddam had actual weapons of mass destruction, he retained the capability and intent to restart his programs once freed of the shackles and scrutiny of the UN sanctions program. One senior U.S. official told the Financial Times, "They won't find weapons but that was never the issue. It's the ability to produce it once he was free of constraints...
...pass unchallenged, however, since the case for war was based primarily on the idea that Iraq possessed actual weapons of mass destruction, and that it had a relationship with al-Qaeda, which together made Iraq an immediate and intolerable threat to the U.S. and its allies. And former chief UN inspector Hans Blix is firing broadsides, bluntly accusing the U.S. and Britain of spinning the available evidence beyond the realm of plausible conclusions to make the strongest case for war, likening them to Mediaeval witch-hunters who went out and "found" witches once they'd convinced themselves that such creatures...
...compromise currently being floated is for Bremer himself to be appointed as UN representative in Baghdad, allowing him to report both to Washington and to the Security Council. But that proposal may not sit well at either end of the divide...
...Even as the wrangling at the UN continues, it's far from clear that even a new Security Council resolution would significantly lighten the U.S. military burden in Iraq. Countries such as India, Pakistan and Turkey, where domestic opposition to deployment in Iraq remains strong, remain uncommitted, and even with a UN resolution in place some may look for other reasons to stay home from a dangerous and open-ended mission. In the case of Turkey, which the Pentagon is hoping to convince to replace U.S. troops in the fiery "Sunni Triangle," the situation is made more complex also...