Reuters – Iraq’s national security adviser said on Saturday he wanted to re-arrest Saddam Hussein’s former top weapons experts, as the U.S. military confirmed the release of 14 more high-ranking detainees.
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Newsweek – Saddam Husseinís top aides just released from prison may have stories to tell. But when it comes to Iraq, who should we trust?
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BBC – Eight former aides to Saddam Hussein – including two women accused of making biological weapons – have been released from US custody in Iraq.

The Times – Saddam’s scientists freed as US house of cards starts to tumble.
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Washington Post – A look at journalist Judith Miller’s life in prison. One of her “beats” is that of biodefense, as regular readers of BiodefenseEducation.org may remember???
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Associated Press – An update on the search for Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.
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The Scotsman – The “disastrous” decision of the British-educated Iraqi scientist dubbed “Dr Germ” to keep silent over the country’s missing anthrax was a major factor in provoking the US-led war, a report said. Rihab Rashid Taha told US interrogators that in early 2003, as war fever built in Washington, she faced the a choice of defusing the heat by coming clean over the fate of the anthrax, or remaining silent, rather than risk Saddam Hussein’s wrath. The microbiologist’s dilemma, she told the interrogators, was that 12 years earlier her team had destroyed the lethal bacteria by dumping it practically at the gates of one of Saddamís main palaces, and the feared Iraqi despot might be enraged at news of anthrax on his doorstep Taha, chose silence ñ stoking the suspicions of those who argued Iraq still harboured biological weapons.
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BBC – Intelligence officials have confirmed the US has stopped searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

More from the New York Times – Search for Illicit Weapons in Iraq Ends.
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Washington Post – The 1991 Persian Gulf War and subsequent U.N. inspections destroyed Iraq’s illicit weapons capability and, for the most part, Saddam Hussein did not try to rebuild it, according to an extensive report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq that contradicts nearly every prewar assertion made by top administration officials about Iraq.
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Reuters – A look at the former head of Iraq’s biological weapons program that are being held by the US.
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Washington Post – The Post analyses its coverage of the Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq issue; and like the New York Times, finds that its coverage was lacking???
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New York – Pulitzer Prize winner Judith Miller’s series of exclusives about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq-courtesy of the now-notorious Ahmad Chalabi-helped the New York Times keep up with the competition and the Bush administration bolster the case for war. How the very same talents that caused her to get the story also caused her to get it wrong.
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New York Times – The New York Times has said it failed to be rigorous enough in its coverage of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the Iraq war.

BiodefenseEducation.org will next be updated on Tuesday June 1.
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The Scotsman – The latest from the Iraqi Survey Group regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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Los Angeles Times – The belief that Iraq had mobile factories to produce deadly biological weapons was based on information provided by a now-discredited defector.
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Knight Ridder – The Iraqi National Congress, which was the source of exaggerated and fabricated intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction to the Bush administration also fed much of the same information to newspapers, news agencies and magazines in the United States, Britain and Australia.
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