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Iraq Weapons Hunter Faults U.S. Intelligence

Sunday, January 25, 2004

WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies need to explain why their research indicated Iraq (search) possessed banned weapons before the American-led invasion, says the outgoing top U.S. inspector, who now believes Saddam Hussein (search) had no such arms.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,109440,00.html

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But what is the real story? The London Telegraph quotes Kay as saying that Iraq's WMD were moved to Syria before the war.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/25/wirq25.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/01/25/ixnewstop.html

Saddam's WMD hidden in Syria, says Iraq survey chief By Con Coughlin (Filed: 25/01/2004)

David Kay, the former head of the coalition's hunt for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, yesterday claimed that part of Saddam Hussein's secret weapons programme was hidden in Syria. In an exclusive interview with The Telegraph, Dr Kay, who last week resigned as head of the Iraq Survey Group, said that he had uncovered evidence that unspecified materials had been moved to Syria shortly before last year's war to overthrow Saddam.