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Australia Doesn't Plan Weapons Inquiry
Mon Feb 2,10:25 PM ET

SYDNEY, Australia - Australia has no need for a special inquiry into its intelligence on Iraq (news - web sites) because it is sure Saddam Hussein had illicit weapons, Defense Minister Robert Hill said Tuesday.

Australia received its intelligence from Britain and the United States, whose leaders both plan to name special panels to investigate the intelligence they used for going to war in Iraq.

But Hill said he had confidence in the intelligence Australia received and there was no doubt Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.

"There were weapons. That is not in dispute," Hill told reporters in Sydney. "The issue is what happened to those weapons."

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