Iraq destroyed weapons 10 years ago, claims Blix

FORMER UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix believes that Iraq destroyed most of its weapons of mass destruction 10 years ago, but kept up the appearance that it had them to deter a military attack.

Mr Blix said it was unlikely the US and British teams now searching for weapons in Iraq would find more than some "documents of interest".

"I'm certainly more and more to the conclusion that Iraq has, as they maintained, destroyed all, almost, of what they had in the summer of 1991," Mr Blix told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.