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D. Spires — (archived)

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who visited Iraq last week, said he's certain unconventional weapons will be discovered eventually.

But as he and the president express confidence, members of Bush's Cabinet are offering up alternative theories that have drawn deep concerns both at home and abroad.

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Dayton, a top official in the Defense Intelligence Agency, said he remains convinced his team will find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He said Friday that he continues to believe prewar intelligence claims that Iraq had recently had unconventional weapons.

Those assessments were doubted by many members of the U.N. Security Council, which last fall agreed to send international inspectors back to Iraq to verify the country no longer had the weapons it was prevented from producing after the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

Funny.

The “theories” now out of favor with the UN Security Council, as Dafna Linzer states, were formulated from UN reports from the UN weapons inspection teams – but don’t look there.

And don’t look at Syria too hard – or too publicly loud.

Dan

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