Iraq disarmament crisis
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In the Iraq disarmament crisis of the early 2000s, Iraq, led by president Saddam Hussein, was pressured by the United States and its other adversaries to destroy alleged stockpiles of weapons of mass
A UN weapons inspector in Iraq in November 2002
A diagram of Iraq's alleged mobile weapons laboratories, as presented to the United Nations by Colin Powell in 2003
Saddam Hussein in 1979
The Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Facility in Baghdad on 10 March 1991, after it was bombed by the U.S. in the Gulf War
Niger uranium forgeries
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The Niger uranium forgeries were forged documents initially released in 2001 by SISMI, which seem to depict an attempt made by Saddam Hussein in Iraq to purchase uranium in the form of yellowcake powd
Iraq disarmament crisis
…in 2002 that Iraq was sponsoring terrorism, linked to al-Qaeda, and had ongoing WMD programs; American officials cited Iraq buying aluminum tubes and documents alleging Iraq wanted uranium as proof of a nuclear weapons program. The U.S. threatened to invade Iraq if the alleged WMD were not destroyed, and their programs not ended. In…
Yellowcake powder
Aerial view of a uranium mine in Niger