Hawks try to implicate Iraq by hunting for evidence in UK

“A row has broken out in the Bush administration after it was revealed that hawks in the Pentagon had sent an ex-CIA director, James Woolsey, to Britain, behind the backs of the state department and the current CIA leadership.

News of Mr Woolsey’s travels, have exposed a deep fissure inside the administration over whether to extend the war against terrorism to Iraq.

Last month, the state department, led by Colin Powell, convinced President Bush that there was no clear involvement in the attacks and that Iraq should not be included on the target list as such action might destroy the fragile coalition.

However, hawks in the administration grouped around the deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, are determined to ensure military action to topple Saddam Hussein.

According to several sources in the U.S., Mr Wolfowitz paid for Mr Woolsey to travel to Britain last month to look for evidence of prior Iraqi involvement in terrorism.”

From Dawn, which describes itself as Pakistan’s largest-circulation English-language daily newspaper. Look at its light, breezy, thoroughly modern weekly review feature; you’d never know it originates from a deeply divided military dictatorship at the margin of the world’s newest, hottest conflagration. On the other hand, its front page is nothing but war news.

On the topic of efforts to implicate Iraq, some are suggesting that the capability to obtain and disseminate anthrax, if a part of terrorist actions, would not be within al Qaeda’s capabilities, and fits neatly with the assumed Iraqi bioweapons capability.