BAGHDAD, April 12 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's top weapons advisor insisted while surrendering to U.S. troops here Saturday, April 12, that he was ready for questioning because the ousted regime did not have arms of mass destruction.

"I expect to be questioned, to be interrogated about the Iraqi armament program," General Amer Al-Saadi, a rockets specialist and Saddam's chief weapons advisor, told German ZDF public television, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said.

Iraq Has No Banned Arms

"I tell you for history: we have nothing, not to defend the regime," said Saadi, who was the chief interlocutor of U.S. disarmament experts, referring to U.S.-British allegations that the Saddam regime still had prohibited weapons.

Saadi told the station that he had remained in his Baghdad home even after U.S.-led forces entered the Iraqi capital Wednesday, April 10, and that he decided to give himself up because he felt "in no way guilty."

He accused the United States of attacking Iraq without reason.

The U.S. launched its war against Iraq without UN authorization and without providing any evidence that Iraq possess any banned weapons.

Before the war, the general had been charged by Saddam with liaising with the UN arms inspectors verifying Baghdad's assertion that it had no program for weapons of mass destruction.

ZDF footage viewed in Baghdad showed Saadi wearing a mustard shirt and black trousers while speaking with his German wife, Helma, his brother and his nephew in the garden of his home in an undisclosed location in the capital.

Then Saadi sat in the back seat of the ZDF van next to the journalist who was interviewing him along the way.

Saadi was seen stepping down from the vehicle near a public bath on Abu Nawas avenue which travels along the eastern bank of the Tigris river, on the opposite side of the U.S.-controlled Republic Palace of Saddam Hussein.

Saadi shook hands with the U.S. troops who told him that he could take along his wife, but the weapons specialist insisted on going alone.

He kissed his wife on the cheek before sitting in the passenger seat of a U.S. military truck that took off to an undisclosed location.

Saadi, an avid tennis player, was carrying only a small sports bag.

A ZDF statement said Saadi declared in an interview to be aired later Saturday that he had no information on the whereabouts of Saddam, who has not given sign of life since a U.S. air strike on a Baghdad building where he was believed to have been present on Monday, April 7.

He also said that Iraq had no chemical or biological weapons.

The station said in the statement that Saadi wished to be accompanied by a ZDF team when he gave himself up.

ZDF said Saadi appears on a list of 52 most wanted Iraqis released by the U.S. Defense Department on Friday under the name "Amir Hamudi Hasan" with the title of presidential scientific advisor.