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WASHINGTON, SEPT. 21. The U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has admitted that the U.S. had gone to war in Iraq on misleading information. The U.S, he said, ``apparently made mistakes. We haven't found stockpiles.'' The mistakes were due to the sources of information, he told Crisis Magazine. Asked if American people would have been willing to go to war if they had been told before that there were no stockpiles in Iraq, Powell said: ``I don't know what the judgment of the American people would have been at that time. ``But the American people were given the best judgment that the intelligence community had and the best political judgment that the President made on what was in the best interest of the American people,'' he added. On whether the U.S. was deliberately misled, Mr. Powell said: ``You are not dealing with people who are church deacons. You are dealing with people who are providing the information and intelligence and you are supposed to be able to sort it out and figure out what is correct and what is not correct. ``And we have very good analysts and very good technical means, but you ultimately are at the mercy of the quality of your sources.'' — PTI
Car bomb
AP reports from Baghdad: A car bomb exploded on Baghdad's airport road today as a U.S. military convoy was passing by, wounding four American soldiers and destroying an armoured Humvee, the U.S. military said. Around 10 civilian vehicles were also wrecked in the blast on the highway leading to the capital's international airport, a police official said on condition of anonymity.
Plea for release
Meanwhile, filled with dread after one hostage was beheaded, the families of a Briton and an American still held captive in Iraq pleaded on Tuesday for their release. Americans Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley and Briton Kenneth Bigley, all construction contractors, were kidnapped from their home in Baghdad last week. A video posted on Monday on a Web site by a militant group led by Al-Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi showed the gruesome beheading of a man identified as Armstrong (52). A speaker on the tape warned that another hostage would be killed in 24 hours unless Muslim women were freed from two U.S.-controlled prisons in Iraq.
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