The Slam Dunk is Rejected

The hunt for WMDs in Iraq is official over. Nearly two years after the US coulda sworn they were there, the US team looking for them has concluded -- there weren't any after all. The top CIA weapons hunter is back home and his team are at work in Virginia. The search wrapped up right before Christmas. Charles A Duelfer led the search in 2004. He turned in an interim report to Congress that showed practically every prewar claim from the Bush administration on WMDs in Iraq was wrong. A top official at the CIA says that report will stand now as the search team's final report and be published in the spring. So this is how the search ends -- not with a bang, but a whimper? (Boston Globe)