Report Raises New Questions On Bush, WMDs

Bush spokesman Scott McClellan said Wednesday that Bush was relying on information from the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency when he said the trailers seized after the 2003 invasion were mobile biological laboratories. That information was later discredited by the Iraq Survey Group in its 2004 report. The CIA and DIA publicly issued an assessment one day after the Pentagon team's report arrived in Washington that said U.S. officials were confident that the trailers were used to produce biological weapons. The assessment said the mobile facilities represented "the strongest evidence to date that Iraq was hiding a biological warfare program." McClellan said it was unclear whether officials at the White House were aware of the contradictory field report when Bush repeated the claim in the television interview. --- On the Net: CIA/DIA report on mobile trailers: http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraqi-mobile-plants/paper-w.pdf Duelfer report on the WMD claims: http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq-wmd-2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article's URL: http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/26-04122006-640704

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