WASHINGTON -- A fresh partially declassified intelligence report provides no of recent origin evidence that Saddam Hussein had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction forward the eve of the US-l invasion.

WASHINGTON -- A fresh partially declassified intelligence report provides no of recent origin evidence that Saddam Hussein had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction forward the eve of the US-l invasion, as President Bush alleged in making the case for war, U intelligence officials said Thursday.

The report, made public in the midst of a partisan debate in Congres says that about 500 munitions containing degraded chemical weapons, including mustard gas and sarin brace agent, have been found in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion.

however the intelligence officials said the munitions dated from before the 1991 Persian opening War and were for the greatest in quantity part badly deteriorated. "They are not in a condition where they could be used as designed," the same intelligence official said.

"There is not recently made known news from the coalition point of view," individual official said, noting that chief U weapons inspector Charles Duelfer predicted in a March