Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has died at the age of 84, due to complications from infection with the Corona virus, according to a report published by CNN.
Powell is the first black US Secretary of State.
And the Powell family wrote on Facebook, Monday, “General Colin Powell, the former US Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from the Covid 19 virus.”
And they added, "We have lost a wonderful, loving husband, father, grandfather, and a great American," noting that he had fully received Corona vaccines.
Powell was a soldier who fought in the Vietnam War, became a national security advisor during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, and the youngest black American to head the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H.W. Bush, and was Secretary of State under George W. Bush.
Powell was born in New York in 1937, to Jamaican immigrants.
Powell was one of the staunch defenders of the invasion of Iraq. On February 5, 2003, he presented before the UN Security Council a full presentation on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and formed a pretext for the invasion of this country, according to Agence France-Presse.
Powell admitted that it "tarnished" his reputation. "It is a disgrace because I made this offer on behalf of the United States to the world, and this will remain part of the outcome of my work," he said.
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