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Iraq may have deliberately mislead world on WMD: Blix 1 hour, 26 minutes ago Add Top Stories - AFP to My Yahoo! SYDNEY (AFP) - Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said Iraq (news - web sites) had probably got rid of its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) 10 years ago but Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) pretended otherwise to deter any attack.

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"I'm certainly more and more to the conclusion that Iraq has, as they maintained, destroyed all almost of what they had in the summer of 1991," Blix told Australian national radio.

Asked if it was likely Iraq has not had weapons of mass destruction for at least 10 years, he said: "Yup, that's right."

Blix's suggestions, which he said were already known in the United States, called into question controversial intelligence used by Britain and the United States to justify the conflict in Iraq.

"You see, if they didn't have anything after '91, there must be some explanation why they behaved as they did. They certainly gave the impression that they were denying access and so forth," Blix said.

"I mean, you can put up a sign on your door, Beware of the Dog, without having a dog."

The US-controlled Iraq Survey Group has been scouring Iraq for evidence of weapons, but its hundreds of scientists have found very little.

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nice coverup there Blix

Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said Iraq had probably got rid of its weapons of mass destruction 10 years ago but Saddam Hussein pretended otherwise to deter any attack.

This make a lot of sense. Why didn't he offer proof that he disposed of it? In order to believe that Saddam had not WMD, you have to accept that he only had just enough chemicals to kill the Kurds and not one drop more and that he kept Dr. Rihab Taha (Dr. Germ) on a payroll to develop new Pillbury bakeoff receipes, and not Anthrax! 1 gallon of Anthrax can kill hundreds of millions of people. All you have to do to find it is to search every square inch of a land mass the size of California.