Study: Iraq Had No WMD, But Saddam Had Intent
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Description: A report by a top US weapons inspector says there are no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But it cites evidence that Saddam Hussein intended to revive a weapons program eventually.
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Contradicting the main argument for a war that has cost more than 1,000 American lives, the top U.S. arms inspector said Wednesday he found no evidence that Iraq produced any weapons of mass destruction after 1991. He also concluded that Saddam Hussein's capabilities to develop such weapon had dimmed &#151; not grown &#151; during a dozen years of sanctions before last year's U.S. invasion.
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Drafts of a report from the top US inspector in Iraq indicate there were no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, according to The AP.
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BAGHDAD : The rhetoric behind last year&#39;s invasion was called into question with a US admission that Saddam Hussein possessed no banned weapons at the time as US and Iraqi forces pressed their assault on rebel redoubts with a major operation south of the
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Saddam Hussein allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction to deter rival Iran and did not think the United States would stage a major invasion, according to an FBI interrogator who questioned the Iraqi leader after his capture.
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WASHINGTON - Contradicting the main argument for war in Iraq, the top US arms inspector reported yesterday that he found no evidence that Iraq produced any weapons of mass destruction after 1991.
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The group hunting for Saddam&#39;s arsenal said it found no evidence the dictator had chemical, biological of nuclear weapons when US-led forces invaded Iraq last year.
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BAGHDAD : The argument for last year&#39;s invasion was undermined by a US admission that Saddam Hussein had no banned weapons at the time, as US and Iraqi forces pressed their assault on rebel redoubts with a major operation south of the capital.
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Description: A top US weapons inspector&#39;s draft report finds no evidence that Saddam Hussein&#39;s government had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction prior to the US invasion of Iraq.
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The Bush administration knew as early as mid-2001 that a central plank of its argument about Saddam Hussein&#39;s alleged weapons of mass destruction was regarded by its own nuclear experts as probably untrue, it was reported yesterday.
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President Bush said on Thursday he  was "right to take action" in Iraq even though a new U.S.  report found that Baghdad had no stockpiles of weapons of mass  destruction and that its nuclear program had decayed.
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WASHINGTON - Undercutting the Bush's administration's rationale for invading Iraq, the final report of the chief U.S. arms inspector concludes that Saddam Hussein did not vigorously pursue a program to develop weapons of mass destruction after international inspectors left Baghdad in 1998, according to lawmakers and others briefed on the report...
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While Democrats seized on the Iraq Survey Group&#39;s report that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction before the US invasion, Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday grabbed the report&#39;s findings that Saddam Hussein was &quot;actively
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Now even President Bush agrees: Iraq didn&#39;t have chemical, biological or nuclear weapon stockpiles when Bush launched a pre-emptive war to thwart what he called &quot;a grave and gathering danger&quot; to the United States and the world.
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Saddam Hussein had no banned weapon stockpiles, and only small, primitive research programmes into chemical and biological weapons, America&#39;s top arms investigator in Iraq has concluded.
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WASHINGTON - Contradicting the main argument for a war that has cost more than 1,000 American lives, the top U.S. arms inspector reported Wednesday that he found no evidence that Iraq produced any weapons of mass destruction after 1991...
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After a year and a half in Iraq the United States has found no weapons of mass destruction; its chief argument for overthrowing the regime.