- Deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein almost certainly
destroyed his weapons of mass destruction after the first Gulf War in 1991,
the United Nations' former chief weapons inspector Dr Hans Blix said today.
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- Dr Blix told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "I
think that the vast majority of people are feeling that there is very little
likelihood that they (the Iraqis) had anything, and the biggest chance
is that they destroyed them in 1991."
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- Asked about reports that David Kay, the head of the coalition's
weapons search group, is about to step down, Dr Blix said: "Certainly,
it is an indication that the US government is giving much higher priority
to the search for terrorists than the search for weapons, that they might
even have given up on the weapons."
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- Dr Blix welcomed the move by Libya to dispense with its
WMD programmes, which he described as "very positive and welcome".
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- Dr Blix was also asked about his assessment of Syria's
reported WMD programmes.
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- He said that in his view the Syrians were "nowhere
on the nuclear side" but might have some biological capability and
were "very likely" to have a chemical capability.
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