a growing body of evidence:
"But by the end of the week - after Bush, addressing US troops in Qatar, had vowed to 'reveal the truth' about WMD - the director of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, Vice-Admiral Lowell Jacoby, was reduced to insisting that, despite the astonishing leak of a September paper by his agency stating that it had no 'reliable evidence' of Iraqi weapons facilities or even whether it could produce chemical or biological weapons, he still had no doubt that Iraq had WMD."-Beaumont/Ahmed/Vulliamy/Fickling
ObserverUK/CommonDreams 08.Jun.03
New intelligence indicates that Iran is supplying Iraqi insurgents with some of their deadliest weapons
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BBC July 2004:
The claim that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction was central to the dossier the [UK] government published in the autumn of 2002 prior to the vote in Parliament which authorised the prime minister to send British troops to invade Iraq.
That dossier was, as the prime minister insisted, "in large part the work of the intelligence services". Supervising its drafting was John Scarlett, then chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), and a former senior officer in M16.
His document may well have been crucial in persuading many members of Parliament to vote for the war. Yet its central claim was wrong.
The error of thinking that Saddam had a WMD arsenal is described on BBC Panorama by Michael Herman, a former Secretary to the JIC as "the biggest failure of intelligence since the failure to predict the German offensive in the Ardennes at the end of 1944".
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U.S. military officials on Sunday accused the highest levels of the Iranian leadership of arming Shiite militants in Iraq with sophisticated armor-piercing roadside bombs
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Tony Blair September 2002:
"In recent months, I have been increasingly alarmed by the evidence from inside Iraq that despite sanctions, despite the damage done to his capability in the past, despite the UN security council resolutions expressly outlawing it, and despite his denials, Saddam Hussein is continuing to develop WMD, and with them the ability to inflict real damage upon the region, and the stability of the world."
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We assess that these activities are coming from the senior levels of the Iranian government," one American official said.
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CIA October 2002:
Among the study's key judgments is the statement that "Iraq has continued its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs in defiance of UN resolutions and restrictions
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...as The New York Times, citing unnamed US intelligence officials, reported Saturday that the deadliest roadside bombs used against US troops in Iraq are supplied to Shia militias by Iran...
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Chicago Tribune 2003:
The Pentagon announced Wednesday [May, 2003]that it had found what it described as a mobile Iraqi laboratory designed for the manufacture of illegal biological weapons
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'Proof' of Iranian arms in Iraq
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FOX News May 2003:
About 2,000 more experts are being sent to Iraq to help look for banned weapons as well as regime leaders, terrorists and more.
The team is more than triple the size of the force now searching for weapons and larger than was previously described. It will be headed by a two-star general in defense intelligence, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
The Defense Department also confirmed it is investigating what officials said may be the most promising discovery so far - a trailer truck they say could turn out to be the first mobile biological lab recovered since the start of the war to disarm the government of Saddam Hussein
