At one time, it was a key center of Iraq's biological and chemical weapons programs.

The Iraqis also delayed making available key officials from the biological program.

Iraq provides more information on its prohibited biological weapons programs.

The terms include the destruction of Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs.

The report, among other items, recommended the research and development of an offensive biological weapons program.

"We believe it also maintains an active and capable biological weapons program."

Russia announced that it was cutting the number of personnel involved in military biological programs by 50 percent.

And the State Department could provide much more financing for its biological programs.

Despite American claims, the general insisted that biological weapons programs "never existed after 1991."

The work done so far shows a story that is similar to that of his biological weapons program.