WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Former top US weapons inspectorin Iraq, David Kay, on Wednesday blamed faulty intelligence for the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

    Kay, who resigned last week as top US arms inspector after six months on the job, said he has found no weapons of mass destruction, even though a number of governments, including the United States, believed they existed.

    "Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here," Kay told the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.

    "I believe that the effort that has been directed to this point has been sufficiently intense that it is highly unlikely that there were large stockpiles of deployed militarized chemical and biological weapons there," he said.

    The Bush administration had cited intelligence saying Iraq had such weapons as a key reason for going to war. Enditem