Powell explicitly warned before lying to UN

The Financial Times

The bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), the State Department's in-house analysis unit, and nuclear experts at the Department of Energy are understood to have explicitly warned Mr Powell during the preparation of his speech that the evidence was questionable.

In the presentation, in which the US laid out its case for a pre-emptive war on Iraq, Mr Powell accused Iraq of importing special aluminium tubes as evidence that Baghdad was still working on a programme to produce atomic weapons.

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