Blair suggests weapons of mass destruction may never be found in Iraq

British Prime Minister Tony Blair suggested on Sunday that Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction may never be found in Iraq.
"In a land mass twice the size of the UK it may well not be surprising you don't find where this stuff is hidden", Blair told BBC television.
The prime minister, US President George W. Bush's staunchest ally in the war against Saddam, added: "You can't be definitive at the moment about what has happened."
Asked if he had been wrong in highlighting the threat of weapons of mass destruction, whose pursuit by Saddam was cited as a main justification for the war launched in March, Blair replied: "You can't say that at this point in time.
"What you can say is that we received that intelligence about Saddam's programmes and about his weapons, that we acted on that. "But I don't know is the answer."
Blair again insisted the US-led Iraq Survey Group scouring Iraq had already uncovered evidence of secret weapons programmes.
However, Blair said: "What they have found already is a whole raft of evidence about clandestine operations that should have been disclosed to the United Nations, a network.
"You are entitled to ask, 'What was the point of having all these elaborate concealment mechanisms if there was nothing to conceal?'"
Blair said he would resign if an imminent report into the suicide of a government expert on Iraq finds that he lied about the incident.
Senior Judge Lord Hutton is due to publish his report into the death of weapons expert David Kelly in coming weeks and is likely to apportion some blame to the government for Kelly's death, which rocked Blair's premier-ship last year.
Kelly killed himself in July after the government outed him as the source of a BBC report that claimed Blair had inflated the threat from Iraq's armament to justify the conflict.