Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi
Death 2009-05-10
| Father | Unknown |
| Mother | Unknown |
CIA Iraq - al-Qaeda Connection Intelligence Was From Foreigners In Egypt
Lawrence Wilkerson states that in 2004 he found out that the confession under threat of torture from Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi was preformed in Egypt with no US intelligence to backup that it even happened. So the intelligence that led the United States to war with Iraq under George W. Bush was preformed with no US officers as witnesses to the confession. Also the torture preformed in this foreign country did not fit under the treaty of the Geneva Convention.
George Bush Makes Speech Based On False Intel From CIA
Started 2002-10-07Ended 2002-10-07
Based on a false confession from an unknown al-Qaeda member (later known to be Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi) Bush gives a speech declaring that “We’ve learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb making and poisons and deadly gases.”
CIA Internal Report Doubted Claims of WMDs In Iraq Before Iraq Invasion
A internal CIA report from January 2003 (released November 2005) stated that intelligence gathered from the torture of Al-Shaykh Al-Libi about Al Qaeda seeking Weapons Of Mass Destruction in Iraq was true. What the CNN source fails to state is that the this report was written two months before the invasion of Iraq in March, and one month prior to Powell’s endorsement of invading Iraq. Al-Libi recanted the info he gave to invade Iraq two years after being released stating that he said it to stop being tortured.