claim: "the iraq study group reported that (saddam hussein) had designs on reviving his nuclear program."
author: fred thompson
evidence_1: oct 3, 2004 ... they also noted that the intelligence community, including the energy  department, largely agreed that mr. hussein had revived his nuclear program. ....  it turned out, they reported, that iraq had for years used high-strength aluminum  tubes to make combustion chambers for slim rockets fired from launcher ...
evidence_2: mar 7, 2003 ... on progress in disarmament of iraq. some council members press for  more time, strengthened. inspections; others insist that iraq has not made  strategic decision to comply. chief united nations weapons inspector hans blix  reported to the security council this morning that, after a period of ...
evidence_3: sep 8, 2002 ... more than a decade after saddam hussein agreed to give up weapons of mass  destruction, iraq has stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has ... of the  supreme council of the islamic revolution in iraq, an iran-based group, during  his recent visit with other iraqi opposition leaders in washington.
evidence_4: apr 22, 2007 ... it exists in iraq.1. saddam speaking about the israeli, us, and uk intelligence  services and iraq's development of binary cw munitions in a speech on 2 .... cw,  delivery systems and nuclear realms and their chronological relationship with  political and military developments that had direct bearing on the ...
evidence_5: feb 1, 2003 ... by the 1991 gulf war, the iraqi program had advanced to the point of having  completed a prototype design of a nuclear bomb, although it had not been .....  saddam hussein considers iraq's wmd capabilities an important source of  power and legitimacy for his government and an international bargaining ...