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(Vienna, Austria-AP) -- The U-N's nuclear agency says unearthed items from Baghdad's original nuclear weapons program appear to back its assertion that the program was not re-activated.
Washington has said Saddam Hussein was trying to make weapons of mass destruction and used this to justify going to war.
But U-N inspectors have said all along that their searches turned up no solid evidence supporting the U-S administration's claim.
The comments from the International Atomic Energy Agency come as American authorities look over parts and documents dug up from a garden belonging to a former Iraqi nuclear scientist.
The scientist says he was supposed to dig up the materials once sanctions against Iraq ended and revive a program to enrich uranium.
But an I-A-E-A spokesman says the scientist's statements seem to indicate there has been no nuclear weapons program in existence since 1991.
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