- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - David
Kay, who stepped down as leader of the U.S. hunt for weapons of mass destruction,
said on Friday he does not believe there were any large stockpiles of chemical
and biological weapons in Iraq (news - web sites).
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- "I don't think they existed," Kay told Reuters
in a telephone interview. "What everyone was talking about is stockpiles
produced after the end of the last (1991) Gulf War (news - web sites) and
I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the '90s,"
he said.
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- Kay said he believes most of what is going to be found
in the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has been found and
that the hunt will become more difficult once America turns over governing
the country to the Iraqis.
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- The United States went to war against Baghdad last year
citing a threat from Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. No actual banned
arms have been found.
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