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INC Gave Inaccurate Iraqi WMD Information to Media
The Iraqi National Congress, a former Iraqi opposition group that has been heavily criticized for providing inaccurate information on prewar Iraq’s WMD efforts to the Bush administration, also supplied misleading information to a number of international media organizations, Knight-Ridder reported today (see GSN, March 11). In a June 2002 letter to the Senate Appreciations Committee, the INC listed more than 100 articles published based on information provided by the group’s Information Collection Program, which is funded by the United States, according to Knight-Ridder. While the INC helped to create an impression there were multiple sources of information on prewar Iraq’s WMD efforts, many of the allegations were made by a small group of defectors and were not confirmed by available intelligence, Knight-Ridder reported. The articles based on INC-provided information made a number of allegations that so far have not been proven, including that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, that Iraq had developed mobile biological facilities disguised as milk trucks and that Iraq could launch Scud ballistic missiles armed with weapons of mass destruction at Israel. The INC letter also listed the international publications where the 108 articles appeared, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the London Times, the Atlantic Monthly and the Sunday Age of Melbourne, Australia, Knight-Ridder reported (Landay/Wells, Knight-Ridder/MENAFN.com, March 16).
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