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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Saddam HAD WMD's. It's a FACT. What happened to them? The final UN resolution demanded that Saddam account for them and he didn't.
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Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraq Survey Group., testified before the Senate Amed Services committee that Saddam had no WMD.
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“As matters now stand, the WMD investigation has gone as far as feasible,” concluded Mr Duelfer in the report. “After more than 18 months, the WMD investigation and debriefing of the WMD-related detainees has been exhausted.”
The ISG also found no evidence to support allegations that Iraq had moved WMD to Syria before the war, which some administration officials had said was possible.
John Shaw, then a deputy undersecretary of defence, in October said Russian “units” had helped move weapons out of Iraq to Syria. But Pentagon officials dismissed the allegations, which were also denied by the Russians.
Mr Duelfer said: “Based on the evidence available at present, ISG judged that it was unlikely that an official transfer of WMD material from Iraq to Syria took place.”
That report prompted President George W. Bush to admit that much of the US intelligence used to justify the war in Iraq was “wrong”.
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