Baghdad insists it no longer has weapons of mass destruction and so sanctions imposed after the 1990 invasion of Kuwait should be lifted.

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So the tribal leaders, in Samarra especially, were left with no weapons, no power.

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"So far, we have no evidence to substantiate the reports that chemical weapons were used yesterday, " he said.

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Police had no idea whether he had weapons or explosives with him, so they repeatedly told him to stand up and lift his shirt to show he wasn't wearing a device, Deveau said .

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So far, no evidence has been found that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed such weapons.

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Thus, the U.S. has sought to organize its nuclear forces so that no enemy can launch a disarming first strike, mainly by fielding three distinctly different types of weapons: manned bombers, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles in hardened silos, and sea-based intercontinental ballistic missiles on stealthy Trident submarines.

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Thus far no effective means of monitoring chemical weapons production has been developed, in part because there are so many commercial chemical facilities that could be utilized for producing chemical weapons precursors.

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In his interview last week with Channel 2, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said he has no doubt that if Obama wishes to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons he is capable of doing so.

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