Majority of Iraqi exiles slanted stories

[kalian]

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/7952660.htm

WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that almost all of the Iraqi defectors whose information helped make the Bush administration's case against Saddam Hussein exaggerated what they knew, fabricated tales or were ''coached'' by others on what to say.

As investigations expand into the intelligence used to justify the war in Iraq, questions are growing about the defectors' role in building the momentum toward last spring's invasion.

Most of the former Iraqi officials were made available to U.S. intelligence agencies by the Iraqi National Congress, a coalition of exile groups with close ties to the Pentagon and Vice President Dick Cheney's office. The INC had lobbied for years for a U.S. military operation to oust Hussein.

The defectors claimed, among other things, that Hussein had built mobile biological weapons facilities, was rapidly rebuilding his nuclear weapons program and had trained Islamic warriors at a camp south of Baghdad.

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And, does this surprise anybody...? :shrug:
Same thing can be said about the so-called "cuban exiles" as well.
Or any other little group that leaves their country and comes crying
to the US. Always listen to them with a grain of salt...