PNAC the OSP and Iraqs WMDs
weapons of mass destruction or significant quantities of proscribed items.'"[footnoteRef:10] However, the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) of October 2002 on Iraq's WMDs (prepared just prior to UNMOVIC's inspections) held that Iraq had mobile weapons laboratories -- the kind that Powell would later cite as justification for invasion. Yet, the October 2002 NIE did not correspond with "prior intelligence assessments"[footnoteRef:11] -- or with the UNMOVIC assessment conducted shortly thereafter. The NIE was offering "intelligence" that no other parties could corroborate. The United States Select Senate Committee on Intelligence noted that the… Continue Reading...