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Blair deluding himself over Iraq`s WMDs, says former ISG chief

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

London, June 5, IRNA -- The former head of the US-led Iraq Survey 
Group (ISG), David Kay, suggested Saturday that Prime Minister Tony 
Blair was deluding himself by insisting that Iraqi weapons of mass 
destruction could still be found. 
"Anyone out there holding -- as I gather Prime Minister Blair has 
recently said -- the prospect that ISG is going to unmask actual 
weapons of mass destruction are really delusional," Kay said. 
Blair repeated in an interview with BBC television`s Breakfast 
program on Friday that Saddam Hussein has WMDs, and suggested that 
the ISG could still produce evidence when it reports in several 
months time. 
But speaking on BBC radio Saturday, Kay said that "there is 
nothing there." There was a program and Saddam`s intention at some 
point to reconstitute it, but "there are not actual stockpiles of 
newly produced weapons of mass destruction," he said. 
"It is amazing that occasionally they slip back into talking 
about it. The problem is the unwillingness to take the 
responsibility of saying a few simple words -- we were wrong," he 
said. 
The head of the survey group, who stood down early this year 
after failing to dig any WMD, said that since the work of ISG was 
"probably not the highest priority at this point." 
"I don`t think it is a waste of time in a sense -- I think every 
bit of additional information we learn about Iraq will ultimately 
improve our performance because we will understand why we were so 
wrong in our estimation," he said. 
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