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Posted on 04/15/2003 11:56:37 AM PDT by ER_in_OC,CA
CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar (AP) The U.S.-led coalition remains ''unwavering'' in its conviction that there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but tests have proved negative at several suspect sites, a spokesman for Central Command said Tuesday.
Coalition forces are using special equipment to search the Iraqi desert for buried material that might be related to Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs, U.S. Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks said, noting that entire fighter jets had been found buried. Separately, officials said 11 metal shipping containers were found buried near a Karbala ammunition plant.
''It will take time to uncover things that are deliberately hidden,'' Brooks said, answering a question about why Iraqi civilians had pointed coalition troops to caches of conventional weapons but had not tipped them off to any weapons of mass destruction.
''We remain convinced that there are weapons of mass destruction inside Iraq and we remain unwavering about that,'' Brooks said.
U.S. officials have said they do not expect to find much evidence of banned weapons until all parts of Saddam Hussein's former regime are clearly out of power and Iraqis no longer fear the consequences of speaking out.
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