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Hoax

[person_by] Frank van der Stok

January 2020

Hoax At a meeting of the U.N. security council on 5 February 2003, the United States Secretary of State Colin Powell presented the ‘indisputable’ evidence for the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. His story formed the legitimate reason for the invasion of Saddam Hussain’s country, six weeks later, by a coalition led by the United States. Eleven months later, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace published a crushing report, exposing that high-ranking U.S. officials deliberately fooled the world about the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles. If we had known earlier about Powell’s story to be a hoax, would Hussain still have been deposed?
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Frank van der Stok
Frank van der Stok (b. 1967) is a curator, editor, essayist and intermediary for artists and art institutions. He also works as an editor and producer of artists’ books.

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