We are told Iraq lost a war in 1991 and agreed to disarm. We are then told that it didn’t abide by it’s promise and all that is provided as evidence is information provided by an Iraqi defector in 1995.
Now here’s what the media doesn’t tell you out loud.
Hussein Kamel, the highest-ranking Iraqi official ever to defect from Saddam Hussein’s inner circle, told CIA and British intelligence officers and U.N. inspectors in the summer of 1995 that after the gulf war, **Iraq destroyed all its chemical and biological weapons stocks and the missiles to deliver them. **
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Kamel’s revelations about the destruction of Iraq’s WMD stocks were hushed up by the U.N. inspectors…
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Kamel was interrogated in separate sessions by the CIA, Britain’s M.I.6 and a trio from the United Nations, led by the inspection team’s head, Rolf Ekeus. NEWSWEEK has obtained the notes of Kamel’s U.N. debrief, and verified that the document is authentic. NEWSWEEK has also learned that Kamel told the same story to the CIA and M.I.6. (The CIA did not respond to a request for comment.)