The New York Times Agency May 2010

(NYT13) KHURMAL, Iraq -- Feb. 16, 2003 -- IRAQ-KURDS -- In an address to the U.N. Security Council on Feb. 5, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell displayed a satellite photograph of what he described as a poison factory and terrorist camp that has received support from both the Iraqi government and al-Qaida's terrorist network. The photograph, offered as a reason to consider risking war to topple Saddam, carried a caption that bore this village's name, Khurmal. The camp in question, however, is actually in Sarget, in territory occupied by Ansar al-Islam, a militant Islamic group the U.S. says is an affiliate of al-Qaida. Since the slide was shown, American officials have said they know where the Ansar camp really is, and describe the caption as a label never meant to confuse. As Mullah Marwan Ismail Hussein, right, tells of his concerns about American bombing, Danja, his 6-year-old daughter, clutches a Western doll in Khurmal, Friday, Feb. 14, 2003. "The conflict is just to monopolize the petrol," he says. "The United States wants the whole world to be one colony of itself." (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)