Iraqi weapons 'posed no risk'

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London - Iraqi chemical weapons posed no significant risk to the world in the run-up to the US-led war to oust Saddam Hussein, the former head of an international arms non-proliferation agency said on Friday.

"Not really, no," said Ron Manley, former director of verification at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, when asked on BBC radio if Iraq's suspected arsenal of chemical weapons had posed a threat before the war.

Manley, who had first-hand experience in Iraq, said any agents produced before the start of UN weapons inspections in 1991 would be useless by now.

He also said there was no sign of the large factories necessary to produce chemical arms after UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in 1998.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1386278,00.html


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[underpants]

1. Why that sounds like someone in the White House...........

LIED!

[JoFerret]

2. Good article. Thanks

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[mhr]

3. As Ricki Used to Say

Lucy you got some splaynin to do!

[damnraddem]

4. Well, duh!

Belaboring the obvious.

Now it's even becoming obvious to the American populace.