The West's unhappy experience with weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq showed the pitfalls of acting on a flawed picture.
The United States and Poland also emphasized the continued need for practical actions to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their delivery systems to states of proliferation concern and to terrorist groups.
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In his book he blames the CIA for faulty intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
Like Iraq, Syria has also been involved for decades in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
From their earliest days in office, President Bush and his subordinates were pursuing initiatives carried over from the Clinton Administration, including improved security against truck bombs, shipborne weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and bio-terrorist threats.
The BBC's diplomatic correspondent Barnaby Mason says UK officials expect a statement to come out of the summit identifying terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as the pre-eminent threat to international security.
Such a capability would allow us to hold at risk some of the 10, 000 concealed and hardened command-and-control bunkers, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) production and storage facilities and other buried high-value targets that have been built by potential adversaries.
From 1990-2005, Ms. Harrington served at the U.S. Department of State as an expert on nonproliferation and cooperative threat reduction and was responsible for developing policy and implementing programs aimed at preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missile expertise in Russia and Eurasia.
At the very least, it is a troubling fact that Communist China has contended the LOST prohibits President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative - one of this country's most important new tools in the effort to curb the further spread of weapons of mass destruction and WMD-related material.
Kelly, who was outed as the "mole" in the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) row between the government and the BBC, was found dead near his Oxfordshire home on July 18 just days after giving evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into the intelligence case for war against Iraq.
In the wake of the recent revelation of a National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) report about the discovery in Iraq of some 500 chemical weapons, the House Armed Services Committee took testimony from military intelligence and civilian experts about the threat posed - both before and after Iraq's liberation - by these and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) amassed by the regime of Saddam Hussein.
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Most significantly, the Presidents critics seem determined to ignore the reality that virtually everyone who had monitored Saddam Husseins activities since the first Persian Gulf War (notably, the United Nations, the French, German and Russian intelligence services, the U.S. Congress, most of the Democratic presidential contenders, etc.), had concluded that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and was seeking to increase their numbers and lethal capabilities.
At the global level, Thailand is concerned with the trade of weapons of mass destruction, or WMD.
Anybody before March 2003, any intelligence report that suggest Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, the famous WMD issue, and there were such reports, was dismissed out of hands.
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After all, even if against all odds Saddam Hussein were actually to cooperate with international efforts to find and destroy his weapons of mass destruction, and such efforts were to succeed, he could be back in the WMD business within six-months time.
This they did by the knowing manipulation of flawed intelligence about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (which were never found), and the bogus claim that Saddam Hussein could deploy such WMD within a 45-minute window.
One of the things that was determined by the Iraq Survey Group, not to be confused with the Iraq Study Group, Jim Baker fame, but the Iraq Survey Group, the team that was dispatched to go look at the weapons of mass destruction issue on the ground after the country was liberated, came back, you saw the banner headlines, No WMD.
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