LONDON - No stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction will be found in Iraq (news - web sites), and coalition leaders were wrong in their assessment of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s arsenal, the former chief U.S. weapons inspector said Saturday.
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Kay, who resigned from the CIA in January after searches failed to turn up weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, dismissed any suggestion that such arms could 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 told British Broadcasting Corp. radio.
"There is nothing there. There is a program there. There was an intention of Saddam Hussein at some point to reconstitute it.
"There were clearly illegal activities, clear violations of UN Security Council resolutions," he said. "There are not actual stockpiles of newly produced weapons of mass destruction."
Kay criticized the reluctance of coalition leaders to admit that their assessment of Saddam's weapons arsenal was, as he believes, incorrect.
"The problem is the unwillingness to take the responsibility of saying a few simple words — we were wrong," he said.
"We simply got it wrong. But we were wrong in our estimation."
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