RE: WMD FOUND
WMD DEBATE REOPENED
Tony Blair and former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix have clashed over Iraq's alleged weapons laboratories.
The Prime Minister said the Coalition's Iraq Survey Group had found "massive evidence" of secret weapons installations in the country.
But Dr Blix described the tatement as mere "innuendo".
Mr Blair, without going into detail, told the British Forces Broadcasting Service that the findings were part of an interim report produced by the survey group several months ago.
"It has already found massive evidence of huge system of clandestine laboratories, workings by scientists, plans to develop long range ballistic missiles", said the leader.
Before the war began, the Government had used Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction as the main reason for going to war in Iraq.
Dr Blix - charged with uncovering Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction before the Gulf conflict began - said the group had failed to produce concrete evidence that the laboratories were working on WMD.
Speaking at the launch of a new independent commission on WMD, he said: "My guess is that there are no weapons of mass destruction left.
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