Britain: Weapons Report Proves Hussein Was a Threat
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Britain says a CIA report that concludes Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction before the US-led invasion last year nonetheless confirms that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein posed a threat that could not be ignored.
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BRIGHTON, England - Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday denied leading Britain into war on a false prospectus, despite intelligence on the threat posed by Iraq being wrong.    In his speech to the Labour Party's annual conference Tuesday, Blair acknowledged that intelligence that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons was wrong...
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Saddam Hussein regarded al-Qaida as a threat rather than a possible ally, a Senate report says, contradicting assertions President Bush has used to build support for the war in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON -- The government's most definitive account of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs, to be released today, will show that Saddam Hussein posed a diminishing threat at the time the United States invaded and did not possess nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons or have concrete plans to develop them, US officials said yesterday.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday confirmed a media report that Iraq&#39;s interim government had voiced concern over the disappearance of about 400 tons of conventional explosives that could be used in missiles.
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The Iraq Survey Group is to confirm during the next fortnight that Saddam Hussein's regime had no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction when it was invaded last year, a UK daily said.
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In Washington, in the tense months before war in Iraq, Charles Duelfer was confident. "Of course he is developing his weapons of mass destruction," the American arms expert wrote of Saddam Hussein.
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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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The New York Times reported last week that a new report on Iraq&#39;s illicit weapons program is expected to conclude that Saddam Hussein had a clear intent to produce nuclear, chemical and biological weapons if the United Nations sanctions were lifted.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday that a U.S. arms inspector's report on Iraq shows that United Nations sanctions against Saddam Hussein's regime were "not working," insisting that it backed the U.S.-British decision to go to war.
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The final report of the chief U.S. arms inspector for Iraq is expected to undercut a principal Bush administration rationale for removing Saddam Hussein: that Saddam's Iraqi government had weapons of mass destruction. Weapons hunter Charles Duelfer will provide his findings Wednesday to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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A CIA report alleging that Bulgarian firms supplied arms for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein bewildered Friday the country's government and triggered mutual accusations between opposition parties, which ...
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Britain started to plan the Iraq war months ahead of the conflict, even as Prime Minister Tony Blair was denying he was on a course for war, according to a report Wednesday quoting a leaked Pentagon document.
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Jack Straw brushes off the Iraq Survey Group's failure to find WMD and insists its report shows Saddam Hussein was a greater threat than thought.
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WASHINGTON -- The final report of the chief American arms inspector for Iraq was expected to undercut a principal US administration rationale for removing Saddam Hussein: that his Iraqi government had weapons of mass destruction.
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Saddam Hussein&#39;s Iraq hadn&#39;t been making weapons of mass destruction since 1991, according to the top US weapons inspector.
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Top U.S. officials were aware some  pre-war evidence cited to make the case against Iraq's Saddam  Hussein was questionable but U.S. intelligence officials  nonetheless deemed the threat of his developing nuclear weapons  credible, top White House aides said on Sunday.