Team leader of arms hunt may quit job-CAMP SLAYER, Iraq
By Dafna Linzer
Associated Press
December 19, 2003
CAMP SLAYER, Iraq -- Weapons hunters are spending more time on base, and the man leading a so-far unsuccessful search for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons is thinking of stepping down.
David Kay, a former UN weapons inspector, was named by the CIA in June to lead the search for the illicit arms in Iraq. His appointment and his charge, the Iraq Survey Group, were supposed to be the key to finding them.
An intelligence official in Washington said Thursday that Kay, who returned last week from Iraq, was considering quitting his post. Kay declined to comment.
The nine-month search for the weapons of mass destruction that President Bush used as the reason for the war has yielded almost nothing. A succession of U.S. teams have failed to find any chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
"For a while this place was really active, but that's changed in the last month," said Charles McKay, a member of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
"Now we're lucky if there's a mission once a week around here," he said at Camp Slayer, on the grounds of one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces in Baghdad.
New leads for the more than 1,000 analysts, translators and others involved in the search could come from the interrogation of Hussein, who was captured last Saturday.
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