Denmark Believed Prewar Iraq had WMD, Reports Show

Denmark’s military intelligence agency believed Iraq had biological and chemical weapons before last year’s war, but acknowledged at the time it had “very limited knowledge of the Iraqi chemical weapons program,” according to documents made public yesterday (see GSN, April 14).

A former Danish intelligence agent claimed that Denmark strongly backed the war despite intelligence from the agency FE that there was no “reliable information” that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, according to Agence France-Presse.

FE assessments from March 2002 to March 2003 were declassified yesterday in response to those claims. While acknowledging its lack of comprehensive information, the agency’s suspicion was that “Iraq was in possession of substances for biological and chemical combat, as well as the capacity to produce them.”

The reports, though, also cautioned that “any evaluation is subject to uncertainties” (Agence France-Presse/Space War, April 19).

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