councilor.org
| Source | Ken Hanly |
| Date | 04/05/13/01:14 |
| Tue, May 11, 2004
Terrorists have Iraq's WMD: PM Martin's views run counter to those of French, German leaders By STEPHANIE RUBEC, Ottawa Bureau Prime Minister Paul Martin says he believes Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and they've fallen into the hands of terrorists. Martin said the threat of terrorism is even greater now than it was following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against the U.S. because terrorists have acquired nuclear, chemical and biological weapons from the toppled Iraqi leader. "The fact is that there is now, we know well, a proliferation of nuclear weapons, and that many weapons that Saddam Hussein had, we don't know where they are," Martin told a crowd of about 700 university researchers and business leaders in Montreal. "That means terrorists have access to all of that." The PM's comments run counter to leaders in countries such as France and Germany who have accused the U.S. and Britain of fudging evidence of WMDs in Iraq to justify the war. When asked to assess the threat level since Hussein was captured by U.S. troops, Martin said he believes it has increased. "I believe that terrorism will be, for our generation, what the Cold War was to generations that preceded us," the PM said. "I don't think we're out of it yet." |
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