Powell’s message was clear: Iraq possessed extremely dangerous weapons of mass destruction, and Saddam Hussein was systematically trying to deceive U.N. It was February 5th, 2003, that Powell addressed the United Nations Security Council and made the case for a first strike on Iraq. While serving as secretary of state under Bush, General Powell played a pivotal role in paving the way for the U.S. Bush, tweeted that he was sad Powell had died before being tried for his crimes in Iraq. In Iraq, the journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi, who famously threw a shoe at President George W. President Biden called Powell a, quote, “patriot of unmatched honor and dignity.”īut in other parts of the world, Powell is remembered very differently. On Monday, tributes poured in from both Republican and Democratic leaders. Powell was the first Black secretary of state, the first Black and youngest chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first Black national security adviser. mass murder around the world, but evading the credit for it.”ĪMY GOODMAN: President Biden ordered flags at the White House to be flown at half-staff in honor of General Colin Powell, who died Monday at the age of 84. invasions around the world, from Vietnam to Central America, Lovato says “he’s made a career out of being a good soldier and supporting U.S. Lusane describes Powell as “a complicated political figure who leaves a complicated legacy” whose public image was “in conflict with many of the policies of the party he supported and the administration in which he was involved.” Assessing Powell’s role in U.S. We speak with journalist and author Roberto Lovato, and Clarence Lusane, activist, journalist and political science professor at Howard University. leaders in both Republican and Democratic circles on Monday, but in other parts of the world Powell is remembered very differently. Powell, who was the first Black secretary of state, the first Black and youngest chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first Black national security adviser, died on Monday due to blood cancer and Parkinson’s disease that left him vulnerable to infection from COVID-19. invasion and occupation that would kill over 1 million Iraqis. Security Council in 2003 about nonexistent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, paving the way for the U.S. Detective Moran followed up with research, interviews and further DNA testing before confirming that he had found the identity of the victim.We look at the life and legacy of Colin Powell, who is best known for giving false testimony to the U.N. 5’s molars, the DNA Doe Project found connections to Mr. The Sheriff’s Department was aided by a nonprofit organization, the DNA Doe Project, whose all-volunteer staff tries to match unidentified remains with genetic profiles that had been uploaded to an open-source genealogy database. 5 - the fifth victim discovered at the Gacy house, now found to be Mr. Alexander’s family was no different, he said: “They were not unlike other families, where they really didn’t know what to think.” Some don’t want to believe their loved ones are dead.”
Some families have real outlandish ideas. “Some families have told me in the past that maybe their loved one had amnesia. For decades, his relatives had little idea where he had gone.ĭetective Jason Moran of the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, who worked on the case, said he had interviewed dozens of families whose relatives have gone missing for extended periods.
Alexander’s family did not call the Chicago Police Department to ask for help or file a missing persons report, officials said. He was no longer at that address, the police replied. The family contacted the police in California and asked them to check the return address on the postcard. In 1976, a postcard from California arrived. Alexander’s divorce, he continued to contact his family in North Carolina, calling to check in or sending notes from his travels. Gacy was known to have targeted other victims, including William Bundy, a 19-year-old construction worker.Īfter Mr. He lived on Winona Street on the North Side of Chicago, in a neighborhood where Mr. The couple divorced months later, and Mr. Alexander moved to Chicago from New York with his wife in 1975, officials said. Gacy’s crawl space, with his identity so many decades later. On Monday, authorities described how they had connected Mr.
Our only comfort is knowing this killer no longer breathes the same air as we do.” Our hearts are heavy, and our sympathies go out to the other victims’ families. “He was killed at the hands of a vile and evil man. “It is hard, even 45 years later, to know the fate of our beloved Wayne,” the statement said. In a statement, the Alexander family thanked the Sheriff’s Department for the investigation and said it finally had a sense of resolution.