CNN - Blair: WMD may never be found

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said weapons of mass destruction may never be found in Iraq, but he insisted former leader Saddam Hussein posed a threat to "the wider world."

"We know that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and we know that we haven't found them," Blair told a committee of lawmakers Tuesday.

"I have to accept we have not found them, that we may not find them.

"But what I wouldn't accept is that (Saddam) was not a threat and a threat in WMD terms," Blair said.

"Whether they were hidden or removed or destroyed even, the plain fact is that he was in breach of United Nations resolutions," he said.

Both Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush used Iraq's alleged weapons program as their primary reason for invading the country, but so far the Iraq Survey Group has yet to turn up any stockpiles of the illicit weapons.

Blair said evidence uncovered by the Iraq Survey Group showed "that [Saddam] had the strategic capability (and) the intent" to use WMD.