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Bush hails ‘dam good'
uranium intelligence
President Bush said that intelligence
about Iraqi uranium transactions
was ‘relevant’ in January, but that
it was later found to be unreliable
By Howard Witt
Chicago Tribune (KRT)
WASHINGTON — Defending the
quality of his administration's pre
war intelligence on Iraq, President
Bush said Monday that an assertion
he made in his State of the Union
address that Iraq had tried to buy
uranium from Africa for a nuclear
weapons program was "relevant" at
the time he said it.
"I think the intelligence I get is
darn good intelligence. And the
speeches I have given were backed
by good intelligence," Bush told re
porters after a White House meeting
with United Nations Secretary Gen
eral Kofi Annan.
"The speech that I gave was cleared
by the CIA," Bush said. "... Subse
quent to the speech, the CIA had
some doubts. But when ... they
looked at the speech, it was cleared."
Bush's remarks did little to quell
the controversy over his Jan. 28
speech, in which, as part of his effort
to build a case for toppling Iraqi dic
tator Saddam Hussein, he stated that
"The British government has learned
that Saddam Hussein recently sought
significant quantities of uranium
from Africa."
Last week, the White House ad
mitted that some of the intelligence
underlying Bush's charge — docu
ments purporting to show nuclear
transactions between Iraq and the
West African nation of Niger, later
determined to have been forged —
was unreliable and the sentence
should not have been included in a
presidential speech. CIA Director
George Tenet, acknowledging that
his agency had earlier raised doubts
about the intelligence, took respon
sibility for the CIA's failure to strike
the remarks from a draft that his of
ficials reviewed.
But other senior administration of
ficials are now arguing that the Africa
allegation might yet prove true, and in
any case was merely a small part of
Bush's case for war, which rested on
the urgent threat Bush said that Sad
dam posed because of his pursuit of
chemical, biological and nuclear
weapons. Despite extensive searches,
II S. forces in Iraq have not yet discov
ered any such weapons.
"This revisionist notion that some
how this is now the core of why we
went to war, a central issue in why we
went to war, a fundamental underpin
ning of the president's decisions, is a
bunch of bull," White House
spokesman Ari Fleischer said.
But leading Democrats are de
manding a formal probe into how the
disputed Africa assertion made it into
Bush's speech, as well as the larger
question of whether the White House
inflated allegations about Iraq's
weapons programs to justify U.S. mil
itary intervention.
"If it were an inconsequential part
of the case, the fact that it was includ
ed becomes even more troubling, and
the conduct of those who included it
becomes even more difficult to justi
fy," said Rep. David Obey of Wiscon
sin, the top Democrat on the House
Appropriations Committee.
But Fleischer insisted: "As far as
the president's concerned, he's
moved on ... I think the bottom has
been gotten to."
(c) 2003, Chicago Tribune.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
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Man allegedly invented
child to get Sept. 11 aid
A New York man took $190,000
of relief aid for losing his son
in terrorist attacks, but prosecutors
say he eerily invented that son
By Barbara Ross and
Bill Hutchinson
New York Daily News (KRT)
NEW YORK — Cyril Kendall of
Queens still insists his son died in the
World Trade Center attacks — even as
prosecutors say he's a lying scam artist
who ghoulishly invented the son to
rip off $ 190,000 in relief aid.
The 54-year-old man's trial got
started Monday with jury selection
and a prosecutor asking to introduce
Kendall's rape conviction and
pattern of filing fraudulent lawsuits
as evidence.
"He consistently puts his own in
terest above society," prosecutor Di
ana Florence told Manhattan
Supreme Court Justice Ronald
Zweibel. "He'll create documents
when it's convenient, lie when it's
convenient. He created a son."
The Richmond Hill, Queens, father
of 12 swears he last saw his son Wil
fred, 29, when he dropped him off for
a job interview at the towers shortly
before the attacks.
But after Kendall, who faces 20
years in prison if convicted, received
$190,867 in aid from Safe Horizon
and the Red Cross, police accused
him of lying.
Kendall, originally from Guyana,
told cops he didn't report his son
missing until Oct. 1,2001, because his
son was here illegally.
He said he decided to seek a death
certificate after hearing then-Mayor
Rudy Giuliani on TV promising no
repercussions for reporting undocu
mented workers lost in the disaster.
"He lost his son, and now he's be
ing terrorized again by the criminal
justice system, which is saying his
son didn't exist," said Kendall's at
torney Dawn Florio, who vowed to
call witnesses to testify that the son
did exist.
Kendall's wife, Doreen, backed
her husband's story Monday, saying
Wilfred was a child from a previous
relationship.
But Florence said the alleged scam
is one of a string pulled by Kendall.
She said he filed bogus lawsuits,
lied about his education and raped
a minor.
Zweibel barred Florence from us
ing Kendall's rape conviction during
the trial, but he will let her bring
up details of his lawsuits if he takes
the stand.
(c) 2003, New York Daily News.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
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