Terror risk from WMD exaggerated, experts say

CANBERRA (Reuters) - The threat that militants could develop and use weapons of mass destruction was exaggerated, international experts said on Tuesday as Australia and the United States warned the risk was real and disturbing.

Lawrence Freedman, professor of war studies at London's Kings College, and the Australian National University's (ANU) Robert Ayson, both played down the likelihood that militants could use weapons of mass destruction in an attack.

Speaking in Canberra at a one-day conference on the threat of weapons of mass destruction, they said while chemical, biological or nuclear weapons could not be ruled out, terror groups were more likely to use conventional bombs and weapons.

"The most likely terrorist threat is likely to be more ordinary and familiar, but still deadly in its own way," Freedman told the conference.

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