Blair makes WMD admission

THREE US marines and an Iraqi child were killed and a car bomb cost several more lives as British Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted mass destruction weapons may never be found in Iraq.

However, a Lebanese-born US marine feared to have been beheaded by his Islamist kidnappers was freed, according to the foreign ministry in Beirut.

A car bomb blew up in Khalis, killing 13 people attending a wake for victims of a previous attack.