Washington -** Iraq gave up its weapons of mass destruction in 1991 and had no active chemical, biological or nuclear programmes at the time of the US-led invasion in 2003, the chief US weapons inspector concluded in a report released on Wednesday.**
Charles Duelfer, head of the US Iraq Survey Group, found that Iraq’s nuclear capability, far from being reconstituted as the United States had insisted before the war, was “decaying rather than being preserved” and would have taken years to rebuild, an official familiar with the report said.
This led him to give up stockpiled weapons and ultimately the programmes themselves, the official said.
“In terms of getting rid of weapons, by the end of 1991 they had gotten rid of just about everything,” said the official, who briefed reporters before Duelfer’s testified to congress on Wednesday.
Saddam clung to the capabilities to produce the weapons until as late as 1996 when the defection of Hussein Kamal, the Iraqi leader’s son-in-law, led to the discovery of a biological warfare programme by UN arms inspectors, according to Duelfer’s account.
His conclusions were drawn from documents, officials’ testimony and debriefings of Saddam Hussein.
“He was not loquacious on the WMD activities, but he certainly put into perspective how he viewed threats,” the official said of Saddam.
Iraq Had no Weapons Stockpiles or Nuclear Program, CIA Says
Well well the biggest specialists in lying and fraud the CIA now admit there finally was no WMD’s in Iraq what a surprise NOT! thousands of iraqis dead billions wasted and now they saying there war was based on lies just tells you cannot trust the word of these amerikkkans because they nothing but bloodthirsty liars who wage war just to increase thier hegemony of the world!