A threat to launch chemical weapons at Israel was a factor that helped make the case for the Iraq war, the CIA director said. In his lengthy defense of the now-faulted intelligence that led up to last year’s U.S. attack on Iraq, George Tenet said Thursday at Georgetown University in Washington that a person close to Saddam Hussein said “weapons of last resort were mobile launchers armed with chemical weapons, which would be fired at enemy forces and Israel.”
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