Joseph Wilson, U.S. diplomat who spoke out on Iraq War, dies at 69 - NYT


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  • Saturday, 28 Sep 2019

FILE PHOTO: Former CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband Joseph Wilson leave a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington in this file photo taken on July 14, 2006. REUTERS/Jim Young/File Photo

(Reuters) - Joseph Wilson, a U.S. diplomat who questioned the central underpinning for the invasion of Iraq under former President George W. Bush, died on Friday at the age of 69, the New York Times reported.

Wilson's ex-wife, Valerie Plame, a former CIA officer now running for Congress, told the Times his cause of death was organ failure.

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