Iraq Possessed No Banned Weapons When United States Invaded, Former Nuclear Scientist Says

Iraq had no WMD stockpiles when the United States invaded last year, Jafar Dhia Jafar, known as the “father” of Iraq’s past nuclear weapons program, said in a television interview aired yesterday (see GSN, Aug. 11).

Iraq destroyed its weapons of mass destruction following the 1991 Gulf War and never resumed programs to rebuild them, Jafar said during an appearance on the BBC program Newsnight. The country’s nuclear program was also abandoned that year, he said.

“They were not available in 2003 because they had been destroyed and the program was never reconstituted or reactivated, none of the programs,” he said (Reuters/Washington Post, Aug. 12).

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