With pressure gone, Iraqi scientists still deny WMD program

From the _Washington Post_: "Jailed Iraqi scientists still deny arms program":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5497-2003Jul30.html bq. Some scientists have been arrested and held for months, others have made deals in return for information and at least one has agreed to be interviewed outside Iraq. No matter the circumstances, all of the scientists interviewed have denied that Hussein had reconstituted his nuclear weapons program or developed and hidden chemical or biological weapons since United Nations inspectors left in 1998. A year ago President Bush wanted Saddam Hussein to give his scientists freedom to have U.N. inspectors question them outside Iraq, on the premise that if the scientists' lives weren't at risk they'd talk about the weapons programs. Now these scientists have little to lose. If anything they would get out of jail sooner if they started telling verifiable stories of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Yesterday President George W. Bush talked about the still-unsuccesful search for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. "It's going to take awhile, and I'm confident the truth will come out." It looks like it already is, Mister President.