In my letter to the editor ( US misinformed implication unfair

), we included information which had passed through many offices in the US government before I received it.

In the process of trying to condense a great volume of information into a short letter to you, I made the mistake of suggesting that in the years following the Gulf War, Dr Peter Zimmerman of the US had changed his original analysis of the Iraqi troop levels o­n the Saudi border.

Dr Zimmerman stands by his original statements, as reported in the St Petersburg Times article ( Photos don't show buildup

) and re-reported in the Guardian ( No casus belli? Invent o­ne! ). I apologise to him and to malaysiakini for any mischaracterisation of his remarks.