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...cratered residences in Baghdad may provide new clues to specific weapons and where they are stored. On Saturday, General Amir al-Saadi, Saddam's top science adviser, surrendered to U.S. forces in Baghdad, insisting that Iraq had no WMD, but U.S. officials believe he has valuable information. The hunt was being carried out by force in western Iraq, near the town of Qaim, where U.S. troops faced heavy resistance. In this regime stronghold, U.S. officials believe Saddam may have stockpiled prohibited long-range missiles and even attempted to restart his nuclear program. Officials at U.S. Central Command speculated that...
...weapons. Their discovery and destruction remain the chief reasons given by the Bush Administration for going to war. "We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said last week. "This is what this war was about and is about." But the hunt has not yet produced a smoking gun. Coalition forces are only beginning to work their way through the hundreds of locations identified by U.S. and British intelligence agencies as possible WMD production and storage sites. "There's so much to be inspected," says a British official. "Of the huge number...
...longer the WMD hunt drags on, the more that opponents of the war will charge it was fought under false pretenses. And if the allies do find any material they believe could be used to build weapons of mass destruction, their claims may not be accepted unless verified by an objective body. British officials, including Prime Minister Tony Blair, endorsed the idea of sending U.N. weapons inspectors back into Iraq to finish the job interrupted by the war. But the Bush Administration is cool to the idea, and other nations aren't clamoring to join in the hunt. At least...
...don’t think anyone would have expected us to be at 12-15 and right in the thick of the division hunt,” Stupor said. “We’ve had injuries beyond [Burnat and Grass], but people have stepped...
...Tools of the Hunt...