- George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America. Originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001, Bush was elected president in the 2000 presidential election and re-elected in the 2004 presidential election. He previously served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, and is the eldest son of former United States president George H. W. Bush.
- Colin Powell
General Colin Luther Powell, United States Army (Ret.) (born April 5, 1937) is a former American military leader and statesman. He became the first African-American to be confirmed as United States Secretary of State. As the 65th United States Secretary of State (2001-05) under President George W. Bush, Powell became the highest ranking African American government official in the history of the United States.
- Hans Blix
Dr Hans Blix , the former Foreign Minister of Sweden, was most recently the head of the UN's weapons inspection team in Iraq. Before that, from 1981 to 1997, he was the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency in which capacity he oversaw the dismantling of Iraq's nuclear weapons program. He was a delegate to the UN General Assembly for 20 years and to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva for 16.
- Judith Miller
Judith Miller, is a controversial American journalist. Miller, based in Washington D.C., was a prominent "New York Times" reporter with access to top U.S. government officials. Her coverage of these officials, especially regarding the Bush administration’s conclusions about Iraq’s alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Program and her involvement in the Plame Affair, made her a conspicuous media personality.
- Scott Ritter
William Scott Ritter, Jr. (born July 15, 1961) is noted for his role as a chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, and later for his criticism of United States foreign policy in the Middle East. Prior to the US invasion of Iraq in March, 2003, Ritter repeatedly stated that Iraq possessed no significant weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Because of the prevailing political climate in the United States at the time, …
- Ahmed Chalabi
Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi,<sup>1</sup> (born October 30, 1944) was interim oil minister in Iraq in April-May 2005 and December-January 2006 and deputy prime minister from May 2005 until May 2006. Chalabi failed to win a seat in parliament in the December 2005 elections, and when the new Iraqi cabinet was announced in May 2006, he was not awarded a post. Once dubbed the "George Washington of Iraq" by American neoconservatives, …
- David Kelly
David Christopher Kelly CMG (May 17, 1944 – July 17, 2003) was an employee of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD), an expert in biological warfare, and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. Kelly's discussion with Today programme journalist Andrew Gilligan about the British government's dossier on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq inadvertently caused a major political scandal.
- Curveball
Curveball was the designation for a claimed "Iraqi chemical engineer" who the United States claimed had served as an informant. Curveball would be the attributed source of pivotal information concerning weapons of mass destruction leading up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. The name Curveball is a reference to a curveball baseball pitch, which is US English slang for something that behaves indirectly, erratically, or surprisingly.
- Hussein Kamel
Hussein Kamel Hassan al-Majid was the son-in-law and second cousin of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. He defected to Jordan and took to helping the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) and the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA inspection teams assigned to look for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Kamel rose through the army ranks to become Iraq's minister of military industries, …
- Richard Dearlove
Sir Richard Dearlove has established himself as a scarce but in-demand commentator on the new century's security threats. Only since his retirement as the Chief of British Intelligence in 2004 has he been able to dispose of his hard-won knowledge and experience for the benefit of private audiences. He still keeps an inquisitive media at arms length and refuses to write about his extraordinary career.
- Tyler Drumheller
Tyler Drumheller is the former chief of the CIA covert operations in Europe, who has said that the CIA had credible sources discounting some weapons of mass destruction claims before the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. He received and discounted documents central to the Niger yellowcake forgery prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He has also stated that senior White House officials dismissed intelligence information from his agency which reported Saddam Hussein had no WMD program.
- Ivan Eland
Ivan Eland is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute and Assistant Editor of The Independent Review. Dr. Eland is a graduate of Iowa State University and received an M.B.A. in applied economics and Ph.D. in national security policy from George Washington University.
- Ali Hassan Al-Majid
Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (born 1941) is a former Ba'athist Iraqi Defense Minister and military commander. A first cousin of former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein, he became notorious in the 1980s and 1990s for his role in the Iraqi government's campaigns of deportations and mass killings against its Kurdish and Shi'ite populations. He was captured following the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was charged with war crimes.
- Robert Luskin
Robert D. Luskin (born January 21, 1950) is an attorney and partner in the law firm of Patton Boggs LLP, specializing in White-collar crime and federal and state government investigations. He is currently the personal attorney for White House senior advisor and chief political strategist Karl Rove, representing Rove in the special investigations into the outing of covert operative Valerie Plame's position within the CIA as a WMD specialist.
- Kenneth R. Timmerman
Kenneth R. Timmerman (born November 4, 1953-) is a journalist, political writer, and conservative Republican activist who in 2000 was a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator from Maryland. Timmerman is executive director of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran, an organization that works to support democratic movements in Iran.
- Frederick Kagan
Born in Lithuania in 1932, Kagan moved at age 2 to Brooklyn, where his view of the importance of violence in human relations was shaped at an early age. "When I walked to school, I had to worry over whether I'd be attacked," he later reminisced. "And I sometimes was" ( Yale Alumni Magazine , April 2002). After receiving a bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College and a master's from Brown University, Kagan attended graduate school, studying ancient history at Ohio State University.
- Andrew Wilkie
Andrew Wilkie (born 1961, Tamworth, Australia) is a former soldier and intelligence analyst who resigned from the Australian intelligence agency, the Office of National Assessments (ONA), in March 2003 over concerns that intelligence was being misrepresented for political purposes in making the case for Australia's contribution to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Wilkie trained at Duntroon (1980-84) and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel (1999) before transferring to the ONA.
- Richard Sambrook
Richard Sambrook Richard Sambrook is the Director of the BBC’s Global News Division, responsible for leading the BBC’s overall international news strategy across radio, TV and new media. From 2001-2004, he was Director of BBC News, the worlds biggest broadcast news operation. During his time with the BBC, he has covered a wide range of news events from the collapse of the Berlin Wall to the Bosnian war to the UK general elections.
- Khidir Hamza
Khidir Hamza is an Iraqi scientist who worked for Saddam Hussein's nuclear programme in the 1980s and early 1990s. Following the Gulf War, he went into exile in the United States and provided evidence to Western intelligence agencies suggesting that Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programmes were active and ongoing. Dr. Hamza first came to the United States in the 1960s, attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Florida State University, …
- Susan Watts
Susan Watts is the science editor of the BBC's Newsnight programme, joining the programme in January 1995. She was educated at Imperial College London, and spent 10 years in print journalism specialising in scientific topics, working for "Computer Weekly", "New Scientist" and "The Independent", before moving into television. Watts came into the limelight in Summer 2003 during the Hutton Inquiry, …
- Lloyd Cutler
Lloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917-May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. Cutler graduated from Yale University in 1936 at the age of 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. Three years later, he graduated magna cum laude from Yale Law School.
- Patricia Wald
Patricia McGowan Wald (born 1928) is an American judge. Wald served as the chief judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and served as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Wald graduated from Connecticut College in 1948 and earned her law degree from Yale Law School in 1951. Following her graduation, she clerked for judge Jerry Frank for a year; during that year, …
- Rolf Ekéus
Rolf Ekéus is a Swedish diplomat. From 1978 to 1983, he was a representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, and he has worked on various other disarmament committees and commissions. Between 1991 and 1997 he was director of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq, the United Nations disarmament observers in Iraq after the Gulf War.
- Jerry White
Jerry White is co-founder with Ken Rutherford of the Landmine Survivors Network (LSN). While hiking with friends from Hebrew University, Jerusalem in April 1984, he stepped on a land mine. He learnt to walk with a prosthesis following five operations at a Tel Aviv hospital. Before he began the LSN, White had been an activist campaigning against weapons of mass destruction and had been interviewed or published in newspapers and journals such as "The New York Times", …
- David Jull
David Francis Jull (born 4 October 1944), Australian politician, is a long-serving Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Bowman, Queensland, 1975-83 and Fadden, Queensland, since 1984. He was born in Kingaroy, Queensland, and was educated at the University of Queensland. He was a Disk Jockey on radio station 4IP and a newsreader on TVQ-0 before entering politics.
- Vladimir Socor
Vladimir Socor (b. August 3, 1945, Bucharest) is an U.S. citizen of Jewish origin, analyst of East European affairs for the Jamestown Foundation and its "Eurasia Daily Monitor". A specialist in former republics of the USSR, CIS affairs and ethnic conflicts, he currently resides in Munich, Germany. He is the son of Matei Socor, who, as head of the "Agerpres" news agency, was involved in the communist regime's propaganda apparatus, …
- Richard O. Spertzel
Richard O. Spertzel is an expert in the area of biological warfare. He participated in germ warfare research at United States Army Medical Unit, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland (now known as the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases). Spertzel held several positions in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases including Deputy for Research, Deputy Commander, and Chief of the Animal Assessment Division.
- Bill Studeman
William Oliver Studeman (born 1940) is a retired Admiral of the United States Navy and former Deputy Director of the United States' Central Intelligence Agency, with two extended periods as Acting Director of Central Intelligence. As Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, he served in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations under Directors of Central Intelligence Robert Gates, R. James Woolsey, Jr. and John M. Deutch.
- Kennette Benedict
Kennette Benedict is the Executive Director of the "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists". Before joining the "Bulletin" in October 2005, she had been the Director of International Peace and Security at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, where she also served as Senior Advisor to the President.
- Rick Levin
Richard Charles Levin (b. 1947) is an American economist, who has served as president of Yale University since 1993. He is currently the longest serving Ivy League president still in office. Born in San Francisco, California to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally.
- Peter Tinley
Peter Tinley retired from the Australian military in 2006 after a distinguished 25-year career. He served in Afghanistan and Iraq and was one of the key strategists from the Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) involved in the planning and leadership of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
- Landon Parvin
Landon Parvin (1948 -) is a Republican speech writer who has written for several U.S. politicians, including Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 1982, while working for Ronald Reagan, Parvin also wrote for Reagan's wife Nancy. Nancy was being criticized in the press for her opulence. Parvin wrote a comedic song for her to the tune of "Second Hand Rose".
- Dominique Lorentz
Dominique Lorentz is a French investigative journalist who has written books on the stakes and reality of nuclear proliferation, as well as a film documentary, "La République Atomique" ("The Atomic Republic"), which related terrorist acts in France in the 1980s to the nuclear program of Iran. Her work details various types of state cooperation (economic, technological, military and diplomatic) over the years, …
- Hatem Kamil
Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah (died November 1, 2004) was the deputy governor of Iraq's Baghdad Governorate. Hatem Kamil was assassinated by gunmen in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad, in the southern district of Dura, while on his way to work. Two of his bodyguards were wounded in the attack. Hatem Kamil served as the Iraqi government's negotiator in Fallujah and had challenged claims that terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was actually in the region.
- J. Lanier Yeates
J. Lanier Yeates (born 1945) is an American lawyer and novelist. Yeates was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and resides in Houston, Texas. He is a graduate of Louisiana State University and the Paul M. Hebert Law Center and served in the U.S. Navy from 1968 to 1975. Yeates is currently a partner practicing oil and gas law with the Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan LLP. A prolific writer, Yeates has published several legal books, …
- Rudibert Kunz
Rudibert Kunz (born 1943) is a German invistigator, journalist and Television editor. Kunz is known for being the first journalist to write about the use Chemical weapons in the Rif War. Since 1979, he has been researching the history of weapons of mass destruction. He also wrote about the strategy of Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War 1991 and about the role of the ABC weapons of Adolf Hitler. He is a holder of a Master in literature and sociology.
- Bart Thompson
Bart Thompson (born September 20th in Los Angeles, CA), is the creator of the comic book company Approbation Comics, and is the creator, writer, and (at rare times) artist of titles such as "Vampires Unlimited", the "Metamutoids", "ChiSai", "The Lazarus Factor", "Chaos Campus", and "Weapons of Mass Destruction".
- Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007, the Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007 and the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007. On the day he stood down as Prime Minister, he was appointed official Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East on behalf of the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia.
- Jeffrey Nelson
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