UN:Iraq Had No Weapons Of Mass Destruction After'94-Paper
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- A report from U.N. weapons inspectors says they now believe there were no weapons of mass destruction of any significance in Iraq after 1994, USA Today reports in its Tuesday editions, citing two U.N. diplomats who have seen the document.
The historical review of inspections in Iraq is the first outside study to confirm the recent conclusion by David Kay, the former U.S. chief inspector, that Iraq had no banned weapons before last year's U.S-led invasion. It also goes further than prewar U.N. reports, which said no weapons had been found but noted that Iraq hadn't fully accounted for weapons it was known to have had at the end of the Gulf War in 1991, USA Today said.
The report, to be outlined to the U.N. Security Council as early as Friday, is based on information gathered over more than seven years of U.N. inspections in Iraq before the 2003 war, plus postwar findings discussed publicly by Kay, according to the report.
Kay reported in October that his team found "dozens of WMD-related program activities" that Iraq was required to reveal to U.N. inspectors but didn't. However, he said he found no actual WMDs.
The study, a quarterly report on Iraq from U.N. inspectors, notes that the U.S. teams' inability to find any weapons after the war mirrors the experience of U.N. inspectors who searched there from November 2002 until March 2003, USA Today said. |
