March 18, 2004

CNN.com - Polish leader: WMD never existed

"We were informed that weapons of mass destruction are in Iraq, that there is a probability of the existence of such weapons," The Associated Press quoted Kwasniewski as saying. "Today, this information is not confirmed."

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In January, David Kay -- the former head of the U.S. inspection team in Iraq -- said in January that his team found no evidence Iraq had stockpiled banned weapons.

However, Iraq's interim foreign minister, Hoshiyar Zebari, told CNN he was not yet ready to close the book on the matter.

"Saddam Hussein had so many ways to hide those weapons, to conceal them," Zebari said.

"And over the last decade or so, he played cat and mouse games with inspectors, with everybody else, and he and his regime have not denied that they had those weapons -- that they had developed them.

"I think there is some time to establish that truth and the full truth about the fate of these weapons."