In 2005 it was clear the Pentagon was searching for weapons of lower cost and greater convenience that came without a legacy of existing equipment and personnel.
In one case, officials said, an Iraqi scientist was shot in the back of the head while walking down a street hours after leaving an interview with members of the U.S. Iraq Survey Group, which is searching for weapons of mass destruction.
Frightened by such talk, groups of civilians across the capital have set up voluntary guard units, manning checkpoints and searching cars for weapons.
In airline security , we might spend less time futilely searching for hidden weapons and instead focus on the real problem of identifying potential terrorists.
Asked about the failure to find WMD, Mr Blair told American television that he would wait until the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group, searching for such weapons, had concluded its hunt.
Kay, who resigned last week as leader of the Iraq Survey Group searching for banned weapons, appeared before the Armed Services Committee after a closed-door session Wednesday morning with the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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But in July, a federal agent who was involved in the firearms case against Thompson said the interior of his house was so cluttered and foul that officials had a hard time searching it for weapons.
Hans Blix, the chief of the UN inspectors, and Mohamed ElBaradei, who heads the International Atomic Energy Agency, expect their teams to start searching for any evidence of weapons of mass destruction on November 27th.
The treaty similarly makes no provision for stopping and searching on the high seas ships suspected of transporting weapons of mass destruction on behalf of or for use by international terrorists.
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Meanwhile, British military divers are searching a flooded underground bunker near Basra for chemical weapons.
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