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Liberals on Capitol Hill and in the media are screaming, "Where are the weapons?" Since the White House had argued that disarming Saddam was the main reason for going to war, not finding his forbidden weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) all lined up like prizes at a seaside shooting gallery has excited the president's political enemies to cry foul. Ewan Buchanan, spokesman for chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix, assures Insight that "it's far too early to tell" whether forbidden weapons remain in Iraq or where they might be. "It doesn't surprise me that U.S. forces haven't found anything yet....

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- The Iraqi reply to a request from the chief U.N. weapons and nuclear inspectors for confirmation of understandings reached in the Vienna talks was regarded Friday by some Security Council members as unresponsive. In another development, the Security Council decided Friday night to hold an open debate on Iraq on Wednesday, as had been requested Thursday by the Non-Aligned Movement. The two-page letter from Iraq, a copy of which was obtained by United Press International, was from Gen. Amir Al-Saadi, an adviser to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who took part in the talks. It...

US official says Iraqi scientists helping on arms By Carol Giacomo WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - Captured Iraqi scientists have started cooperating with the United States, giving U.S. officials renewed confidence that there are unconventional weapons in Iraq and they will be found, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said on Wednesday. "The people we have found are already leading us to other people as well as to computer files and to documents," he told the National Defense University, an elite school for America's military officers. "With these sources of information, we can say with a high degree of confidence...

One of Iraq's top nuclear scientists has surrendered, the US said last night, in another bonus for the coalition as it attempts to locate Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. The surrender of Jaffar al Jaffar followed that of Saddam's most senior scientific adviser, Lt Gen Amer al-Saadi, in Baghdad over the weekend. Jaffar had turned himself in over the past few days in Iraq, a US official announced yesterday on condition of anonymity. He added that Jaffar "certainly would know about locations of nuclear-related facilities, and also would know a lot of people associated with Iraq's nuclear program, as...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Saddam Hussein's science adviser surrendered to U.S. military authorities Saturday, insisting that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and the U.S.-led invasion was unjustified. Lt. Gen. Amer al-Saadi arranged his surrender with the help of Germany's ZDF television network, which filmed him leaving his Baghdad villa with his German wife, Helga, and presenting himself to an American warrant officer, who escorted him away.Al-Saadi told ZDF that he had no information on what happened to Saddam and repeated his assertion, made often in news conferences before the U.S.-led invasion, that Iraq was free of weapons of...

Sat April 12, 2003 10:11 AM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's top scientific adviser, one of 55 people on America's most wanted list of Iraqi leaders, has surrendered to U.S. forces, German public TV station ZDF reported on Saturday. General Amer Hammoudi al-Saadi, who liaised with U.N. weapons inspectors before war broke out, gave himself up to U.S. forces in Baghdad on Saturday, ZDF said. The station said one of its camera crews had accompanied al-Saadi at his request. His surrender would be the first from the group of 55 the United States wants pursued, killed or captured, ZDF...

BAGHDAD - A prominent Muslim cleric said in a sermon Friday that Iraqis everywhere must threaten U.S. interests and "set them ablaze." Abdel-Razzaq al-Saadi's sermon at Friday prayers was carried live on Iraqi state television. "The entire world, Muslims and non-Muslims, is cursing the intentions of the American administration against Iraq which, God willing, will be frustrated," al-Saadi said. Al-Saadi's title is imam of Umm al-Maarek, or Mother of All Battles Mosque in Baghdad. "Mother of all Battles," was the war cry uttered by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein before the Gulf War in 1991. Al-Saadi said in his sermon it...