Tuesday, September 19, 2006

ZNet |Iran | U.N. Inspectors Dispute Iran Report By House Panel

ZNet |Iran | U.N. Inspectors Dispute Iran Report By House Panel: "Privately, several intelligence officials said the committee report included at least a dozen claims that were either demonstrably wrong or impossible to substantiate. Hoekstra's office said the report was
reviewed by the office of John D. Negroponte, the director of national intelligence.

Negroponte's spokesman, John Callahan, said in a statement that his office 'reviewed the report and provided its response to the committee on July 24, '06.' He did not say whether it had approved or challenged any of the claims about Iran's capabilities.

'This is like prewar Iraq all over again,' said David Albright, a former nuclear inspector who is president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security. 'You have an Iranian nuclear
threat that is spun up, using bad information that's cherry-picked and a report that trashes the inspectors.'"

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