Powell holds out possibility that Iraq had no banned weapons

January 25, 2004

TBLISI, Georgia (AP) – Secretary of State Colin Powell held out the possibility Saturday that prewar Iraq may not have possessed weapons of mass destruction.
Powell was asked about comments last week by David Kay, the outgoing leader of a U.S. weapons search team in Iraq, that he did not believe Iraq had large quantities of chemical or biological weapons.
Powell acknowledged that the United States thought deposed leader Saddam Hussein had banned weapons but added, ”We had questions that needed to be answered.
Almost a year has passed since Powell’s speech before the U.N. Security Council in which he accused Iraq of violating a U.N. weapons ban imposed after Iraq invaded Kuwait more than a decade ago.

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