Report Finds No Evidence Syria Hid Iraqi Arms

Report Finds No Evidence Syria Hid Iraqi Arms: "The report, which refuted many of the administration's principal arguments for going to war in Iraq, marked the official end of a two-year weapons hunt led most recently by former U.N. weapons inspector Charles A. Duelfer. The team found that the 1991 Persian Gulf War and subsequent U.N. sanctions had destroyed Iraq's illicit weapons capabilities and that, for the most part, Hussein had not tried to rebuild them. Iraq's ability to produce nuclear arms, which the administration asserted was a grave and gathering threat that required an immediate military response, had 'progressively decayed' since 1991. Investigators found no evidence of 'concerted efforts to restart the program.'"