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Washington - The CIA's top weapons inspector in Iraq has ended his hunt for weapons of mass destruction. Charles Duelfer concluded former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, but wanted them. He also concluded it was "unlikely that an official transfer" of weapons of mass destruction between Iraq and Syria occurred, but couldn't rule out shipments of "limited WMD-related materials." U.S. President George W. Bush used the presence of weapons of mass destruction as a key argument for the invasion of Iraq As many as 1,000 weapons inspectors and translators formed the survey group in Iraq, which officially disbanded last month. London - A longtime backbencher from British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour party defected to a rival party Tuesday, saying he timed his announcement to do maximum damage to Blair's campaign. Blair's Labour party is holding a considerable lead in most national polls heading into the May 5 vote. A victory would make Blair the first Labour leader to win three consecutive terms. Washington - U.S. forces in Iraq say they just missed capturing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of an al-Qaeda-linked group blamed for a series of violent attacks, a senior U.S. military official said Tuesday. Troops pulled over the truck al-Zarqawi was believed to be in, but he was not inside.
