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...miscalculations on Iraq, few have been as surprising as the inability to find real evidence of Saddam's supposed weapons of mass destruction. Pentagon officials say the 1,200-strong team led by CIA weapons expert David Kay, whose interim report is expected soon, has not found any stockpiles of deadly chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. So far, says an Administration official, "they have come across only parts and pieces and things--and that's about the best they are going to come up with." Members of Bush's senior national security team, says this official, "are as surprised...
...trader's story offers A glimpse into the challenges faced by David Kay, a co-head of the Iraq Survey Group, charged by the CIA with finding the WMD the Bush Administration insists Iraq has. Kay is expected to release a status report on his findings soon, possibly this week. While stressing that the account will not be the Survey Group's final word, CIA spokesman Bill Harlow allows that it "won't rule anything in or out." That remark seems a tacit acknowledgment that the U.S., after nearly six months of searching, has yet to find definitive evidence that...
...have not yet found stocks of weapons." DAVID KAY, chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, in an interim progress report to Congress on the hunt for the weapons of mass destruction that President Bush used as justification...
...fate of Iraq's WMD programs remains a mystery that Kay's group will pursue. But the absence of evidence of an imminent threat helps explain the disconnect between the U.S. and reluctant allies on Iraq. Without evidence to vindicate Washington's prewar claims, the debate at the UN is reduced to the U.S. and its coalition partners painting themselves as stewards of Iraqi liberation, while skeptics and adversaries see their presence there as an unwelcome occupation which, in the words of Indonesia's President Megawati Sukarnoputri - a key U.S. ally in the war on terrorism - "has created far many...
...President Bush told the UN that he went to war to defend its credibility. But until such time as David Kay produces concrete evidence to back the administration's prewar claims, in the UN chamber it may be Washington's own credibility that needs defending...