U.S. arms hunter says no Iraq WMD

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The following are excerpts of a telephone interview conducted with David Kay, after he stepped down as the chief U.S. arms hunter in Iraq:
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“Q: You came away from the hunt that you have done believing that they did not have any large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in the country?

A: “That is correct.”

Q. Is that from the interviews and documentation?

A. “Well the interviews, the documentation, and the physical evidence of looking at, as hard as it was because they were dealing with looted sites, but you just could not find any physical evidence that supported a larger program.”

Q: Do you think they destroyed it?

A: “No, I don’t think they existed.”

So much for clear and present danger . . . .

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