Terror mastermind Ibn Al Shaykh Al Libi: Misleading the US?

US military intelligence warned the Bush administration as early as February 2002 that its key source on Al Qaeda’s relationship with Iraq had provided “intentionally misleading” data, according to a declassified report made public on Sunday.



Democrat Carl Levin, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who pushed for partial declassification of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) document said; “This newly declassified information provides additional, dramatic evidence that the administrations pre-war statements were deceptive’.



The report provides a critical analysis of information provided by Ibn Al Shaykh Al Libi, an Islamic radical and bin Laden associate, who served as senior military trainer at a key Al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan before it was destroyed by US forces in late 2001.



In captivity, Al Libi initially told his DIA debriefers that Al Qaeda operatives had received training from Iraq in manufacturing poisons and deadly chemical agents. But the DIA, according to its assessment, did not find the information credible.



News : Jang