Something else.

The Security Council will now begin its consideration of item two of the agenda.

I call now on the distinguished Secretary of State of the United States of America,

his excellency, Mr Colin Powell. Thank you, Mr President.

It's six weeks before Allied forces invade Iraq, and Bob Drogin, a journalist for the Los Angeles

Times, is in the chamber of the UN Security Council in New York.

All eyes are on Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State State as he delivers an urgent message.

I think the whole world was watching this.

I mean, this was the Bush administration trying to convince the world that there was a case to be made for starting a new war.

He was there to prove that an invasion of Iraq was imperative.

Colin Powell was the most credible as the Secretary of State and as an international

statesman and as a former general was the most credible member of the George W Bush administration to make that case.

Thank you, Mr President.

Mr President, Mr. Secretary General, distinguished colleagues, I would like to begin by expressing my thanks for the special effort that each of you made to be here today.

He said, first biological weapons. He made clear that that was the lynchpin for everything else.

Let me now turn to those deadly weapons programs and describe why they are real and present

dangers to the region and to the world. First, biological weapons.

And then he said, we have an eyewitness, and he described the seven trucks.

Mobile production facilities used to make biological agents.

We have first-hand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails.

And he held up a vial of something white.

Less than a teaspoon of dry anthrax, a little bit about this

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