World News 05-12-2002 Iraq`s Sinister Weapons Programmes In Ruins who: The United Nations what: Inspect ruins of chemical weapons facility where: Iraq when: Yesterday snippet: "United Nations arms inspectors yesterday raided a sinister installation deep in the Iraqi desert," reports The Telegraph, "where Saddam Hussein`s chemical weapons programme began and the deadly gases he used against his enemies were produced." But all they found were "twisted pieces of metal rising from the rubble" and other similar "reminders of how Saddam Hussein`s nuclear ambitions were destroyed," says The Independent`s Kim Sengupta. Meanwhile, Iraq continues to insist that it has no weapons of mass destruction programme, reports The Financial Times. General Mohammed Amin, head of the Iraqi national monitoring directorate, admitted the existence of "biological, chemical, nuclear and missile" programmes but denied any "prohibited activities". But US Secretary of State Colin Powell says the White House knows that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction, reports ITV news online. "The burden is on them to prove that they don`t have," he says. "If they do have, they had better acknowledge it and make those programmess accessible to the UN inspection teams." [... more]

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