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Rumsfeld's new line on missing arms By Grant McCool in New York
Iraq may have destroyed its purported chemical and biological weapons before it was invaded in March, the United States Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has said in an effort to explain why none has been found. The leaders of the US, Britain and Australia insisted that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction as justification for their invasion on March 20. Mr Rumsfeld told the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations think tank he did not know why Iraq had not used chemical weapons against the invaders as Washington had predicted it would. The speed of the US advance might have caught Iraq by surprise, he said. "It is also possible that they decided that they would destroy them prior to a conflict." Mr Rumsfeld told his audience of foreign policy analysts, diplomats and business leaders on Tuesday that he suspected "we'll find out a lot more information as we go along and keep interrogating people". |
