Special AP Report Reveals Fresh Details on Iraq WMD Controversy

By E&P Staff

Published: September 02, 2005 8:55 PM ET

NEW YORK An extraordinary recap of U.S. claims about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq, to be moved by the Associated Press this weekend, reveals new details about the pre-war misstatements and the desperate efforts by American officials and CIA chief George Tenet to actually find the weapons after the war.

The lengthy report, written by Charles J. Hanley, AP special correspondent, is based on fresh interviews, official documents and other sources.

"There was an absolutely closed mind," Kay tells AP, referring to American officials. "They would not look at alternative explanations,” he said, referring specifically to controversies surrounding the aluminum tubes and bio-weapons trailers.