Remember the mobile biological labs in Iraq?

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Warnings on WMD 'Fabricator' Were Ignored, Ex-CIA Aide Says

By Joby Warrick

Washington Post Staff Writer

Sunday, June 25, 2006; Page A01

In late January 2003, as Secretary of State Colin Powell prepared to argue the Bush administration's case against Iraq at the United Nations, veteran CIA officer Tyler Drumheller sat down with a classified draft of Powell's speech to look for errors. He found a whopper: a claim about mobile biological labs built by Iraq for germ warfare.

Drumheller instantly recognized the source, an Iraqi defector suspected of being mentally unstable and a liar. The CIA officer took his pen, he recounted in an interview, and crossed out the whole paragraph.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...81.html?sub=new

Image that.

The mobile labs turned out to be used for helium storage provided to Iraq in the 60s by Britain.