US to compare weapons report with intelligence

American officials are to check Iraq’s report on its weapons programmers against US intelligence information that suggests Saddam Hussein has hundreds of tons of chemical weapons, the ability to produce biological weapons and an active nuclear weapons programmed.

The officials are not confident that Iraq’s report will have accurate information but say it still will be useful – if nothing else, so the administration of President George Bush can try to catch Saddam in a lie. It will be examined and compared on a site-by-site basis to US information.