Fed: I don't know if WMD reports were true - Butler =2
He said Iraq did train terrorists, some from other countries, at a place just outside Baghdad.
But he did not believe that Saddam Hussein would have given them WMDs.
"It's not consistent at all with possession of WMD, to give them to others. On thewhole, states don't do that," Mr Butler said.
"I saw no evidence of Iraq giving over WMDs to non-state actors, to terrorist groups.
"I did see some evidence, indeed (former Iraqi deputy president) Tariq Aziz once talkedto me about this personally, of great animosity between the Ba'athist regime in Baghdadand Osama bin Laden's movement. Great animosity.
"I would have been stunned if Saddam had wanted or would have allowed his WMDs to begiven to al-Qaeda, for example."
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