Scientific teams were withdrawn on the eve of the war after spending 3 months looking for mass destruction; in interviews, several inspectors relate what they found Cambridge, U.K.―Even before the first shots were fired, the war in Iraq claimed a prominent casualty: the United Nations (U.N.) and its efforts to disarm Saddam Hussein's regime through diplomacy and on-the-ground inspections. That process came to an abrupt halt last week when the U.N. withdrew its weapons inspectors from Baghdad on the eve of the war. As the endgame in Iraq commenced, Science spoke with a range of experts, including U.N. inspectors just back from Baghdad, to get a sense of what had been accomplished during more than 3 months of efforts to ferret out weapons of mass destruction (WMD)―and what should be done to engage Iraqi scientists after the war ends.
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