Former US weapons inspector David Kay is advising President George Bush to acknowledge he was wrong about hidden storehouses of weapons in Iraq and move ahead with overhauling the intelligence process.

Defending his decision to invade Iraq, US President George W Bush said that although stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons have not been found, Saddam Hussein had the capacity to produce such arms and could have developed a nuclear weapon over time.

United States President George Bush said tonight he was “determined to figure out why” stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction had not been found in Iraq, as he announced a commission of inquiry.

President George Bush’s public support dropped sharply over the past month, especially among older voters, political independents and people in the Midwest, an Associated Press poll found.

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is not ready to conclude that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction before US troops invaded to depose him last year.

President George Bush, declaring he wants “all the facts,” tonight ordered an independent investigation into intelligence failures in Iraq but said he wants to first consult with former chief weapons inspector David Kay.

US President George Bush has authorised an inquiry into the intelligence on Saddam Hussein’s weapons arsenal.

President George W Bush, under mounting political pressure, will sign an executive order to establish a full-blown investigation of US intelligence failures in Iraq, a senior White House official said.

American officials have received useful information from direct interrogation of Saddam Hussein, a senior military official in Iraq said today.

President George Bush tonight appeared to acknowledge that the spectre of Saddam Hussein’s so-called weapons of mass destruction – over which the the United States went to war – might have been the product of an intelligence failure.

President Bush’s national security adviser has admitted that intelligence given to the administration before the Iraq war was probably flawed.

A fresh inquiry is to be held into intelligence on Saddam Hussein’s supposed arsenals of weapons of mass destruction, it was claimed today.

The man who led the search for banned weapons in Iraq has said that he found no evidence that Iraq had chemical or biological stockpiles – not even small ones.

STALIN once said: “One man’s death is a tragedy, one million deaths, just a statistic.” When weapons inspector David Kelly met his tragic death last July, a reporter in Japan asked Tony Blair “Have you blood on your hands, will you resign, Prime Minister?”

The outgoing chief US weapons inspector says his inability to find illicit arms in Iraq raises serious questions about American intelligence-gathering.

A BRITISH defence minister at the time of the Iraq war said yesterday it was "increasingly likely" the intelligence on which the British government relied ahead of the conflict was 'deficient'.

WITH fresh doubts cast on weapons of mass destruction by former Iraq Survey Group director David Kay, it is reasonable to ask if the Irish Government will re-assess its stance on the war.

ANTI-WAR groups have called on the Government to acknowledge it made a mistake by allowing US troops and weapons pass through Shannon Airport during the continuing conflict in Iraq.

THE former top US weapons inspector in Iraq said yesterday he believes Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction before the US-led invasion.

US SECRETARY of State Colin Powell held out the possibility that pre-war Iraq may not have possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Intelligence reports suggesting that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction were correct, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has insisted.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell held out the possibility that pre-war Iraq may not have possessed weapons of mass destruction.

The CIA named a new inspector to lead the search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, choosing a veteran investigator who has expressed scepticism that Saddam Hussein possessed banned weapons that posed an immediate threat.

The top United States weapons inspector in Iraq is stepping down, it was announced the evening.

US PRESIDETN George W Bush said yesterday that a report by a US team hunting for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction found evidence of weapons’ programmes and defended his decision to go to war.

The search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq made clear that Saddam Hussein had deceived the international community and was “a danger to the world,” President George Bush said today.

The search for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq has so far drawn a blank.

The weapons inspector given the task of finding Saddam Hussein’s much-vaunted weapons of mass destruction tonight declared that he had found none.

The man given the task of finding Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction delivers his initial findings tomorrow and is expected to say that Iraq’s threat to launch chemical or biological attacks may have been a bluff.

The hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq suffered a further setback today after it emerged that regime defectors had provided little or no evidence of use to coalition forces.

The Bush administration has hit back at accusations by leaders of the House of Representatives’ intelligence committee that the United States went to war in Iraq on the basis of outdated and vague intelligence.

An adviser to the CIA has hinted that US and coalition staff were close to a breakthrough in the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

ALTHOUGH it is not immediately obvious to me why the Irish Congress of Trade Unions should take up a position on the war in Iraq, I am glad that ICTU’s general secretary, David Begg, has done so.