Intelligence officials and military experts on Iraq express caution. ... According to studies released by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Iraq does not have the facilities to make enough material for a nuclear weapon by itself and would need foreign help to do so. ...
One person who backs the president's plan is Secretary of State Colin Powell, who is going to the United Nations on February 5 to share intelligence with its Security Council about Saddam Hussein not accounting for many biological and chemical weapons. ... One of these was hydrogen-based fuel cells, which would not only be cleaner than current fuels, but it would also decrease dependence on foreign oil, specifically Iraqi. ...
With this law we have given sweeping new powers to both domestic law enforcement and international intelligence agencies and have eliminated the checks and balances that previously gave courts the opportunity to ensure that these powers were not abused. Most of these checks and balances were put into place after previous misuse of surveillance powers by these agencies, including the revelation in 1974 that the FBI and foreign intelligence agencies had spied on over 10,000 U.S. citizens, including Martin Luther King Jr. ...
Khidir Hamza, who defected from Iraq in 1994, and other experts on Iraq testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the start of two days of hearings on the Iraqi threat to the United States and possible U.S. responses, including an invasion. Citing German intelligence estimates, Hamza said Iraq had more than ten tons of uranium and one ton of slightly enriched uranium. ... Change in Regime is the Only Way Khidir Hamza also told the Senate Foreign Relations committee that it was, "Difficult to see how any measure short of a regime change would be effective." ...
Whatever the name, the violent network of terrorist led by bin Laden is a grasping target for U.S. intelligence. ... He helped fund the Islamic foreign legion, and he learned how to guerrilla fight in wars. ... In 1998, Bush wrote " A World Transformed", a book written for foreign policy as president. ...
Consequently, the Foreign Office and the State Department came to and agreement upon the notorious Red Line Agreement. ... The United States decided to supply the Iraqis with intelligence, and committed the US Navy to safeguarding the flow of oil out of (and the flow of money and arms into) Iraq, but secretly sold arms to Iran in order to fund anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua, and gain influence with hostage-holding Muslim militias in Lebanon. ...
