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After invading Iraq, CIA compiled a list of 946 suspect sites in Iraq where Saddam's arsenals of mass destruction might be found. US Army raided the sites but found nothing.

When criticism on CIA's reporting about Saddam's Weapons of Mass destruction grew CIA sent the best..
..of the US inspectors under David Kay, they had a team of 1400 specialists -- the Iraq Survey Group.
The survey group scoured Iraq and found nothing.

The CIA had reached its conclusions on Iraqi chemical & nuclear weapons solely on the basis of misinterpreted..
pictures of Iraqi tanker trucks and Saddam's importation of aluminum tubes intended for conventional rocketry.

And just before invading Iraq, US secretary of state Colin Powell on 5th Feb 2003 said in UN that their reports are based on solid sources and there are no assertions.
Three years after the invasion of Iraq, the CIA concluded:
"the cause célèbre for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of U.S. involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement."
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