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Ex-US weapons inspector says Iraq had no banned weapons

The former top US weapons inspector in Iraq, David Kay, said on Sunday that his group found no evidence Iraq had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction before the US-led invasion in March.

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The former top US weapons inspector in Iraq, David Kay, said on Sunday that his group found no evidence Iraq had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction before the US-led invasion in March.

Speaking on the National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition," Kay said that US intelligence services owe President George W. Bush anexplanation for having concluded that Iraq had such weapons.

"My summary view, based on what I've seen, is we're very unlikely to find large stockpiles of weapons," he said. "I don't think they exist."

"The face that we found the weapons do not exist, we've got to deal with that difference and understand why," said Kay, who resigned two days ago as the top US weapons investigator in Iraq.

"I actually think the intelligence community owes the presidentrather than the president owing the American people," he said.

"We have to remember that this view of Iraq was held during theClinton administration and didn't change in the Bush administration," Kay said. "It is not a political issue. It is a serious issue of the capabilities of one's intelligence service tocollect valid, truthful information."

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