Former Iraqi scientist says Saddam has bio bombs

A FORMER top Iraqi scientist said he believed Saddam Hussein had dismantled his nuclear programme but was making chemical and biological weapons hidden deep in underground beyond the eyes of UN inspectors.

Hussain Al Shahristani said the Iraqi president did not have the capacity to deliver a payload of the weapons to distant countries but could pass them to overseas cells of supporters.

“There’s no way they can really find them, unless by pure accident,” Shahristani, a former chief scientific advisor to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission, told a briefing organised by an association of foreign journalists in the Philippines.