US military interrogators botched the questioning of Iraqi scientists in the search for weapons of mass destruction and their detention "serves no further purpose", a new CIA report has found.
The report says that in many cases the wrong people were detained, and subjected to questioning by "inexperienced and uninformed" interrogators. It estimates that 105 scientists and officials suspected of involvement in WMD programmes are still in detention.
"Others may have reasons for not letting them go. I wanted to be on the record that, in respect to the WMD inquiry, we're done," the report's author, Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), told the Guardian.
The report is an addendum to a more comprehensive document published last September, which concluded that Iraq had abandoned almost all of its WMD programmes over 10 years before the 2003 invasion.
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