Honest Colin?

[Mike Weaver]

Some months back I mentioned the non existence of the Iraqi troops build up 
which was used as the justification for the 1991 'Gulf war'. I wasn't able 
to provide reference then. The following was on the website - but not the 
paper - a couple of days ago.


"In 1990 as the US prepared for its first war with Iraq there was heavy 
reliance on the use of "classified" satellite photographs purporting to 
show that in September 1990 - a month after the invasion of Kuwait - 
265,000 Iraqi soldiers and 1,500 tanks were massing on the border to gear 
up to invade Saudi Arabia. The threat of Saddam aggressively expanding his 
empire to Saudi Arabia was crucial to the decision to go to war, but the 
satellite pictures were never made public....

...The photographs, which are still classified in the US (for security 
reasons, according to Brent Scowcroft, President Bush senior's national 
security advisor), purportedly showed more than a quarter of a million 
Iraqi troops massed on the Saudi border poised to pounce. Except, when a 
resourceful Florida-based reporter at the St Petersburg Times persuaded her 
newspaper to buy the same independently commissioned satellite photos from 
a commercial satellite to verify the Pentagon's line, she saw no sign of a 
quarter of a million troops or their tanks."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,889419,00.html
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