Death Of Colin Powell: How AI Now Reveals The Truth Behind His Infamous UN Speech

By Joan Carmichael YEET MAGAZINE | Updated 0439 GMT (1239 HKT) October 16, 2021

General Colin Powell  died of Complications from Covid-19 and multiple myeloma at the age of 84 according to a statement release by his  wife and family. The  general, whose role was pivotal in the   Iraq war. The man was best known around the world for his speech made on February 5, 2003, before the UN Security Council for claiming that "the Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons, rebuilds facilities to manufacture even more, including Anthrax. The whole file cited by the Secretary of State consisted of numerous "blunders" of the administration of Tony Blair, but also false information of an informant of the CIA. He was actually an Iraqi chemist who admitted to having invented everything to overthrow Saddam Hussein.

In September 2002, the director of the CIA as well as Colin Powell, US secretary of state at the time, told the Senate that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy uranium concentrate in Niger. Faced with this information, George W. Bush assures us that "the Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons, rebuilds facilities to manufacture even more. A chemical or biological attack were even mentioned in 45 minutes according to the British.

COLIN POWELL. First African-American Chief of Staff, Colin Powell passed away Monday, October 18 from the Covid-19. If the tributes have multiplied, it remains for some one of the men who were involved in the outbreak of the war in Iraq.

SUMMARY

Colin Powell is dead. The first African-American to have held the post of Chief of Staff of the Armies, but also the first black Secretary of State in the history of the United States, under the presidency of George W. Bush, or even head of the American diplomacy, Colin Powell had many feats of arms to his credit. He died Monday, October 18, 2021 of "complications related to Covid-19" according to his relatives, at the age of 84. "We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, and grandfather, and a great American," his family said in a statement.

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Hailing "a patriot of unparalleled honor and dignity" as well as "a dear friend", President Joe Biden did not fail to pay tribute to him, stating in particular that Colin Powell represented "the highest ideals diplomacy and the army ".

CNN, that Colin Powell has, "on many occasions, put the country before himself, before the party, before everything else" and "that had him earned the respect of the American people ". It must be said that Colin Powell had gradually moved away from the Republican Party from 2008, notably supporting Democrats Barack Obama, then Hillary Clinton, as well as Joe Biden in their race for the White House.

Colin Powell and the Iraq War

The man was best known around the world for his speech made on February 5, 2003, before the UN Security Council. A long speech on the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) allegedly held by Iraq, which served to justify the invasion of the country.

In September 2002, the director of the CIA as well as Colin Powell, US secretary of state at the time, told the Senate that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy uranium concentrate in Niger. Faced with this information, George W. Bush assures us that "the Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons, rebuilds facilities to manufacture even more. A chemical or biological attack were even mentioned in 45 minutes according to the British.

February 5, 2003, before the United Nations Security Council , Colin Powell presented a dossier on a program to manufacture weapons of mass destruction. During his plea, he scrolls through images of trucks that are prototypes of mobile biological research laboratories, satellite photos that represent chemical weapons factories.

But it is this image just above that will go down in history. The Secretary of State, on his sources, brandished an anthrax capsule to support his remarks. This speech will lead to the war in Iraq, a war contested by the UN at the time.

During the war, UN inspections will find no weapons of mass destruction. A few weeks later, American investigations will indicate that Iraq had indeed abandoned its nuclear, chemical and biological program after 1991.

Anthrax, the "stain" of Colin Powell's career

The whole file cited by the Secretary of State consisted of numerous "blunders" of the administration of Tony Blair, but also false information of an informant of the CIA. He was actually an Iraqi chemist who admitted to having invented everything to overthrow Saddam Hussein.

In an interview, Colin Powell assures that this episode is a "task in his career". "It is very hard to forget such a moment especially when you have been told about it every day for ten years! Since I discovered that a lot of the information that was given to me was inaccurate, I do not stop asking myself: what should I have done to avoid this? In my defense, I would say that I only had three days to prepare this presentation and we had a very large number of documents to analyze (.. .) Obviously I thought the CIA had verified his information, so when, a few weeks later, the Agency told us that the "information" on the traveling biological labs came from Germany and that no American agent was '

In a 2015 report,  the American intelligence services used to justify the invasion of Iraq explained that there was nothing to indicate that the country then held weapons of mass destruction. Regarding chemical weapons, the report notes that Iraq has "renovated a vaccine manufacturing plant" and still holds stocks of some gases but has not relaunched a biological weapons program while for weapons nuclear power, Saddam Hussein "did not have the means" to manufacture them.