Soldiers of both the American have mainly conducted the Coalition search for WMD and British forces that have found several sites they thought might contain WMD. However, testing on these sites has turned up negative results for chemical, biological or nuclear materials. So the search continues with potential new discoveries almost daily now but with each new discovery comes news that the tests for WMD have come up negative. So what happened to Saddam Hussein's arsenal of chemical and biological weapons and the materials the government had acquired to create nuclear weapons? Did he even have the weapons that the United States and Britain thought that he had to begin with?
The answer to the first question is clearly unknown. It has been said that the Iraqi's might have shipped some or even a majority of its WMD to Syria until the crisis had passed. That is a very likely possibility. Another and possibly more realistic explanation for the lack of WMD discoveries so far is that they may have buried some of the materials or hidden them underneath buildings where they would be harder to
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