Yesterday, as Colin Powell left his interview on CBS's "Face the Nation", Sam Husseini of the Institute for Public Accuracy asked him about claims he made regarding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in his speech at the UN Security Council before the invasion of Iraq.
Powell was asked by IPA about his speech's citing of the defector Hussein Kamal, Saddam Hussein's late son-in-law, in support of U.S. claims about Iraqi WMDs. When asked if he knew at the time he gave his UN speech on Feb. 5, 2003, that Hussein Kamal had stated that Iraq had destroyed its WMDs, Powell replied: "Of course not!" However, in the mid-1990s, Kamal told UN inspectors as well as CNN that Iraq no longer had WMDs.
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