Top U.S. Weapons Inspector in Iraq Set to Brief Lawmakers Today on WMD Search

Chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq Charles Duelfer was expected today to tell U.S. lawmakers that the Iraq Survey Group still has found no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that the search will continue, U.S. officials said yesterday (see GSN, March 29).

Duelfer, who replaced David Kay in January, was set to brief the Senate Armed Services Committee and Select Committee on Intelligence today during closed hearings about the recent efforts of the Iraq Survey Group. He is also scheduled to brief members of the House of the Representatives later this week, Reuters reported (Tabassum Zakaria, Reuters/Yahoo!News, March 29).

A classified report that Duelfer has prepared about the WMD search in Iraq “does not draw any conclusions” and is mainly intended as “an update” for the Bush administration and lawmakers, a U.S. intelligence official said. The CIA hopes to release a public version of Duelfer’s report today, the intelligence official said (Douglas Jehl, New York Times, March 30).

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