Chalabi Says Three Defectors Provided WMD Information

Chalabi said "there was no hyping of information."
"There was no information that was given that was not substantiated," he said. "And the record will speak for itself."

Chalabi said he told lawmakers about three defectors who had provided the U.S. government with information on Iraqi weapons programs.

One was an engineer "who built sites for the weapons storage areas." He was presented to the U.S. government on Dec. 17, 2001, and entered into the witness protection program, Chalabi said.

The second exile told the United States about mobile biological labs, he said. U.S. officials believe two truck trailers it seized in Iraq were likely those labs. But no traces of biological weapons have been found.

The third exile spoke only briefly to U.S. officials. Chalabi said he was involved in the isotope separation program for nuclear weapons.