American report confirms that Iraq is free from mass destruction weapons

A new report stressed that the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein sought to have a nuclear bomb, but was not able to own the necessary means for that.

Saddam Hussein did not own these weapons even under the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in March 2003. "But, like earlier reports, it finds no evidence that Iraq had begun any large-scale program for weapons production by the time of the American invasion last year, the officials said," The New York Times reported yesterday.

One American official asked to be anonymous told the New York Times that the report prepared by an inspection group under the supervision of the chairman of the current US inspectors Charles A. Duelfer, concluded that Iraq was expected to produce nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, had sanctions been lifted from it after 1991.

The report which was prepared by a group, assigned by the US President George W. Bush in June 2003 to discuss searching for mass destruction weapons in Iraq that the Iraqi regime did not own such weapons.

The reports debated in 1500 pages after 15 months of investigations a comprehensive overview about the mass destruction weapons in Iraq under the rule of Saddam Hussein and gave evidences on finding secret laboratories stressing that there were small amounts of chemical and biological weapons to be used in potential assassination operations but on a mass scale.

What was reached by this report supports conclusions reached by a preliminary report in October 2003 by the chief of the former inspection team in Iraq David Kay in which he stressed that there was not in Iraq a stockpiling for mass destruction weapons.