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Clear evidence that Iraq had biological weapons: Australia
Sydney, May 29: There is clear evidence Iraq had a biological weapons programme even though none of the armaments have been found there since us-led forces invaded the country, Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer said today.
"Whether the agents that were to be used in those
biological warfare vehicles will be found, that's another
question, because it's obviously like looking for a needle in
a haystack," he said.
The United States led an invasion of Iraq, toppling
Saddam Hussein's regime, based on claims that the oil-rich
country had a programme to build Weapons of Mass Destruction.
But US forces and their allies have been unable to find any
such weapons after searching for more than a month.
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that
maybe no evidence of weapons of mass destruction had been
found because Hussein's supporters had "decided that they
would destroy them prior to a conflict."
Bureau Report