IRAQI WMD

Reuters: Scientist says Iraq never revived nuke programme

VIENNA, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Iraq never revived its secret nuclear
weapons programme after it was dismantled by U.N. inspectors in the 1990s, a
senior Iraqi scientist at Iraq's new Ministry of Science and Technology said
on Tuesday. Before launching the March 20 war to topple Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein, the United States and Britain said Saddam was trying to
develop an atomic bomb and other weapons of mass destruction.
In four months of inspections before the war, U.N. weapons inspectors
never found any evidence of this. Since major military actions ended in Iraq,
U.S. and British military have also found no evidence to support this
allegation.