Was this the mother of all misjudgments?David Blair (Filed: 26/09/2003) If Saddam destroyed all his weapons of mass destruction under pressure from the US, it was a mind-boggling error, says David Blair. During Saddam Hussein's last fevered weeks in power, his increasingly desperate aides regaled the world's press with their official line on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. "Those programmes were completely removed in 1991," said General Amer al-Saadi, Saddam's British-educated weapons adviser. "Iraq does not have a single one of these weapons any more." For all his persuasive charm, Gen Saadi's words sounded hollow. He had, after all, spent...