AP: Democrats press on for prewar Iraq report

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Posted on Sun, Nov. 06, 2005

Democrats press on for prewar Iraq report

DOUGLASS K. DANIEL

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - A government document raises doubts about claims al-Qaida
members received training for biological and chemical weapons in Iraq,
as Senate Democrats on Sunday defended their push for a report on how
the Bush administration handled prewar intelligence.

Democrats forced the Senate into an unusual closed session last week
as they sought assurances the Intelligence Committee would complete an
investigation of intelligence about Iraq before the U.S.-led invasion
in March 2003.

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"We cannot have a government which is going to manipulate intelligence
information. We've got to get to the bottom of it," Sen. Edward
Kennedy, D-Mass., said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Newly declassified portions of a document from the Defense
Intelligence Agency showed that the administration was alerted that
an al-Qaida member in U.S. custody probably was lying about links
between the terrorist organization and Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

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