U.S. Wraps Up Search for Banned Weapons in Iraq
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The U.S. force that scoured Iraq for  weapons of mass destruction -- cited by President Bush as  justification for war -- has abandoned its long and fruitless  hunt, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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Equipment which could be used to make nuclear arms has been vanishing from Iraq, the United Nations has been warned. Satellite images show entire nuclear plants appear to have been dismantled.
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Officials say report proved that sanctions and inspections had succeeded in keeping Iraq arms programs in check before the war.
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REVELATIONS that nearly 400 tonnes of conventional explosives have gone missing in Iraq have experts wondering what other weapons might be in jeopardy of falling into insurgent or terrorist hands.
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WASHINGTON - The final report of the chief U.S. arms inspector for Iraq was expected to undercut a principal Bush administration rationale for removing Saddam Hussein, that Saddam's Iraqi government had weapons of mass destruction...
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The final U.S. intelligence report on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is expected to address whether the banned armaments may have been smuggled out of the country before the war started.
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U.N. inspectors, barred from most of  Iraq since last year's invasion, are ready to return to probe  the disappearance of equipment that could be used in atomic  weapons, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said Wednesday.
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The U.S. military said on Sunday there had been a dramatic drop in the number of Iranian weapons being used in Iraq but no let-up in Tehran's training and financing of Iraqi militias.
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Iraq had no stockpiles of biological  and chemical weapons and its nuclear program had decayed before  last year's U.S.-led invasion, the chief U.S. weapons inspector  said on Wednesday, in findings contrary to prewar assertions of  the Bush administration.
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More than four years after Saddam Hussein's ouster, the Security Council voted Friday to shut down the U.N. inspection bodies that helped uncover his illegal weapons programs but were then banned from Iraq by the United States.
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The U.S. military said on Sunday there had been a dramatic drop in the number of Iranian weapons being smuggled into Iraq but no let-up in Tehran's training and financing of Iraqi militias.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency says several-hundred tons of high explosive material have disappeared in Iraq. The agency says a lack of security has led to looting from several sites.
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The Bush administration said Tuesday that it will investigate reports that equipment with possible nuclear weapons applications was looted after the US-led invasion of Iraq.
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The UN nuclear watchdog confirmed Monday that nearly 400 tons of powerful explosives that could be used in conventional or nuclear missiles disappeared from an unguarded military installation in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON -- Iraq did not maintain an active program to develop weapons of mass destruction after the 1991 Persian Gulf War and had no chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons when the United States invaded last year, the chief US weapons inspector in Iraq concluded yesterday.
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Equipment and materials that could be used to make nuclear weapons are disappearing from Iraq but neither Baghdad nor Washington appears to have noticed, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency reported on Monday.
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The fog of war keeps getting thicker. The Iraqi government's decision to temporarily ban the security company Blackwater USA after a fatal shooting of civilians in Baghdad reveals a growing web of rules governing weapons-bearing private contractors but few signs U.S. agencies are aggressively enforcing them.