US admits Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction

THE Bush administration has concluded that fallen Iraqi President Saddam Hussein did not have stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.

US admits Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction

The US claimed however that there were signs he had dormant programmes he hoped to revive at a later time.

In a 1,500-page report, the head of the Iraq Survey Group, Charles Duelfer, will find Saddam was importing banned materials, working on unmanned aerial vehicles in violation of UN agreements and maintaining a dual-use industrial sector that could produce weapons. Mr Duelfer also says Iraq had only small research and development programmes for chemical and biological weapons.

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