U.N.: Iraq had no WMD after 1994

Big surprise:

A report from U.N. weapons inspectors to be released today
says they now believe there were no weapons of mass destruction of any
significance in Iraq after 1994, according to 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 had not fully accounted for
weapons it was known to have had at the end of the Gulf War in 1991.
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.

Posted by flow Frazao on March 2, 2004 at 07:31 AM | Permalink