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Ron Suskind says Iraq Intel Forged

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Terry Gross interview's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind on his allegations that the head of Iraqi intelligence told the British there were no weapons of mass destruction prior to the invasion of Iraq. When this report reached the highest levels of the Bush administration, Suskind claims, the administration decided to ignore the report, relocate the Iraqi intel chief and pay him $5 million.

The following is taken from Fresh Air's website:

Then, in the fall of 2003, the White House decided that a letter should be fabricated, dated July 2001, from the Iraqi to Saddam Hussein establishing a link to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S. "And the letter should as well say that Saddam Hussein has been actively buying yellowcake uranium from Niger with the help of al-Qaida," Suskind says.

He says that sources at the CIA remember seeing the order for that letter on "creamy White House stationery" and that the letter could only have come from the "highest reaches of the White House. ... It would have to come from the very top."

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The prologue of Suskind's new book, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism is available on Fresh Air's website.

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