Fabricated war: 20 years on from Colin Powell's lies at UN on Iraq WMDs
Fabricated war: 20 years on from Colin Powell's lies at UN on Iraq WMDs

Today marks 20 years since the then US Secretary of State Colin Powell pushed military action in Iraq at the UN Security Council in an episode well-known for his display of a vial in an attempt to prove allegations of the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

That claim later proved to be false.