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...administrator Paul Bremer said the U.S. had not sent enough troops during the early days of the occupation to prevent the rampant looting that took place then as well as the sense of lawlessness that now rules portions of the country. Most explosive of all was weapons inspector Charles Duelfer's 918-page CIA report on Saddam's weapons, which concluded that while the Iraqi leader had wanted weapons of mass destruction, he destroyed his stockpiles after the 1991 Gulf War and had no programs or materials to make new ones anytime soon...
...revival of WMD after sanctions." As former inspector David Kay noted on the Today show, Saddam "had a lot of intent. He didn't have capabilities. Intent without capabilities is not an imminent threat." While Bush had always been careful not to call the threat from Iraq imminent, Duelfer's report certainly made it seem more distant...
...senior White House official told TIME that Bush might go along with a blue-ribbon panel, though the President wants to let the Iraq Survey Group continue its work. With Kay having resigned his post, the group is now under the leadership of Charles Duelfer, another veteran arms inspector. Bush, the official said, continues to stand by Tenet, in part because foreign intelligence agencies also missed the WMD. Besides, the source added, Bush is "very willing to go out and discuss why [war] was the right thing to do. He is as sure of this as he is of anything...
...that." Not that the news will likely have much effect on the Bush administration's plans. There has been strong speculation in diplomatic and political circles that the Pentagon is currently assembling its own team of weapons experts in Kuwait, possibly under the direction of former UN inspector Charles Duelfer, to search for weapons of mass destruction once Saddam's regime has been ousted...
...produced 8,400 liters of anthrax, 19,000 liters of botulinum and 2,000 liters each of aflatoxin and clostridium. A single gram of anthrax--roughly 1/30 oz.--contains 1 trillion spores, or enough for 100 million fatal doses if properly dispersed. "In terms of where it went," says Duelfer of the Iraqi bio cache, "we could never nail it all down." Even if inspectors had found all the materials before they left the country, Iraq has almost certainly made more in the past three years. Thanks to Rihab Taha, a British-educated Iraqi biochemist, nicknamed Dr. Germ...