REUTERS
U.S. Still Searching for Banned Weapons in Iraq
Updated 8:15 AM ET April 13, 2003

AS SAYLIYA CAMP, Qatar (Reuters) - U.S. forces have yet to find conclusive proof that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, but thousands of sites remain to be searched, the U.S. war commander said on Sunday.

"I have not found any that I have absolutely satisfied myself are ... weapon of mass destruction materials," General Tommy Franks told CNN in an interview at Central Command war headquarters in Qatar.

"But you're talking about 2,000, 3,000 perhaps, places in this country where we know we're going to go and investigate each one of them."

The United States and Britain invaded Iraq on March 20, saying Saddam Hussein had failed to declare banned weapons.

But there has been no chemical or biological attack against invading troops, and no confirmed discovery of banned weapons has been reported.