STOCKHOLM, September 26 (IslamOnline) - U.S. allegations about Iraq’s arsenal are totally unfounded, Swedish strategic experts said, explaining that the 12-year-sanction-hit country does not constitute the least threat to world peace and that the United States is propagating those claims to get the world’s support in its upcoming war against Iraq.

“U.S. allegations about Iraq’s nuclear and chemical ability are totally baseless,” Ake Sellstrom, a weapon researcher, told the Swedish daily newspaper, Aftonbladet Tuesday, September 24, adding that Iraq is not even capable of making a few chemical bombs which still do not constitute a threat to humanity.

Iraq has entirely given up the idea of producing nuclear and chemical weapons, especially during the period when most Iraqi institutions were being inspected by international weapons inspectors, Sellstrom added.

“It simply defies all logic to imagine that Iraq - as the U.S. claims - was able to develop this alleged huge arsenal during the time since international inspectors left the country in 1998,” he said.

Aftonbladet quoted Lina Norlander, a defense and chemical weapons expert at a specialized Swedish institute, as saying that the United States does not have any evidence against Iraq’s so-called possession of mass destruction weapons.

Shanon Kelly, a researcher at the Swedish ‘Peace’ institute, said Iraq does not possess a nuclear bomb, and that the production of such a bomb requires a very long time and equipment that Iraq lacks.