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Since midsummer, the Senate Intelligence Committee has been attempting to solve the biggest mystery of the Iraq war: the disparity between the Bush Administration’s prewar assessment of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and what has actually been discovered. The committee is concentrating on the last ten years’ worth of reports by the C.I.A. Preliminary findings, one intelligence official told me, are disquieting. “The intelligence community made all kinds of errors and handled things sloppily,” he said. The problems range from a lack of quality control to different agencies’ reporting contradictory assessments at the same time. One finding, the official went...

OPERATION: IRAQI FREEDOM'Saddam's bombmaker' hit in assassination attemptHamza touted as authoritative source on nuclear program Posted: December 25, 20033:13 p.m. Eastern By Sherrie Gossett© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com An Iraqi newspaper – Iraq of Tomorrow – along with Iraqi scientists and members of the expatriate community are reporting that U.S. emissary Khidhir Hamza, has been the victim of a bomb attack. Hamza is often referred to in the West as "Saddam's Bombmaker" after the title of his best-selling autobiography of the same name, that portrayed his rise to leader of the Iraqi nuclear bomb program. A roadside bomb was placed in one of Hamza's...

I just 'googled' to see if I could find the latest information on Dr Khidhir Hamza. I couldn't find anything later than from 2001 and 2002. Does anybody know what's happened to him? Do you think he's in Iraq,helping to find WMD's or is just in hiding?

Ex-Iraqi official touts war Iraq's former nuclear chief speaks at IWU By Kelly Josephsen Pantagraph Staff BLOOMINGTON -- Khidhir Hamza was a member of the Iraqi elite -- part of Saddam Hussein's inner circle and the top official in the country's nuclear weapons program. Yet he and millions like him left their native land because they saw no hope. "We gave up," Hamza said. Now, Hamza is preparing to go back to Iraq in a month. His return will probably be during wartime, and he goes back a defector who had to escape through the mountains of Turkey in 1994....

Saddam's Bomb maker, Dr. Khidhir Hamza on Radio this Saturday March 15, 2003 at 3 P.M. -- 50,000 Watt KCBC Radio 770 AM in Central California On Sunday March 9, 2003 Steve Wampler interviewed Dr. Khidhir Hamza, who headed Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program and is the author of the book, "Saddam's Bomb maker". The show will be rebroadcast Saturday at 3 p.m. (at 50,000 watts, with reach over about one-third of California) on KCBC, 770 AM. The interview lasted for 40 minutes of the 60-minute program and covered topics such as: Why Saddam should be removed from power in...

For RealAudio stream of March 3rd broadcast... about 12 minutes in (also featuring interview with Gov. Huckabee of Arkansas). If this link happens not to work, the stream may be linked from here. Book by Hamza here.