Powell's doubts over CIA intelligence on Iraq prompted him to
set up secret review  Specialists removed questionable evidence
about weapons from draft of secretary of state's speech to UN
Fresh evidence emerged last night that Colin Powell, the US
secretary of state, was so disturbed about questionable American
intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction that he
assembled a secret team to review the information he was given
before he made a crucial speech to the UN security council on
February 5.  Mr Powell conducted a full-dress rehearsal of the
speech on the eve of the session at his suite in the Waldorf
Astoria, his New York base when he is on UN business, according
to the authoritative US News and World Report.    Presented with
a script for his speech, Mr Powell suspected that Washington
hawks were "cherry picking", the US magazine Newsweek also
reports today. Greg Theilmann, a recently retired state
department intelligence analyst directly involved in assessing
the Iraqi threat, says that inside