Saddam scrapped WMD after Gulf War

SADDAM HUSSEIN scrapped all Iraqi weapons of mass destruction after the first Gulf War, his chief nuclear scientist has claimed.

Dr Jaffar Dhia Jaffar, who was at the centre of the country's nuclear programme, told the BBC that there was no prospect of resurrecting the doomsday projects following the 1991 order.

Dr Jaffar also poured scorn on British claims that Saddam tried to procure "yellow cake" uranium for a nuclear bomb from the African state of Niger.