WASHINGTON – Drafts of a report from the top American inspector in Iraq conclude there were no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but say there are signs Saddam Hussein had dormant programs he hoped to revive at a later time, according to people familiar with the findings.

In a 1,500-page report, the head of the Iraq Survey Group, Charles Duelfer, will find Saddam was importing banned materials, working on unmanned aerial vehicles in violation of U.N. agreements, and maintaining a dual-use industrial sector that could produce weapons.

Mr. Duelfer also says Iraq only had small research and development programs for chemical and biological weapons. As Mr. Duelfer puts the finishing touches on his report, he concludes Saddam had intentions of restarting weapons programs at some point, after suspicion and inspections from the international community waned.

An intelligence official said Mr. Duelfer could wrap up the report as soon as this month. Those who discussed the report inside and outside the government did so on the condition of anonymity because it contains classified material and is not yet completed.

The report is expected to be similar to findings reported by Mr. Duelfer’s predecessor, David Kay, who presented an interim report to Congress in October. Mr. Kay left the post in January, saying, “We were almost all wrong” about Saddam’s weapons programs.

Mr. Duelfer’s report, however, is expected to fall between the position of the Bush administration before the war – portraying Saddam as a grave threat – and the declarative statements Mr. Kay made after he resigned.

Meanwhile, a team of kidnappers grabbed two Americans and a Briton in a dawn raid on their home on a leafy Baghdad street yesterday.

West of the capital, American forces launched attacks yesterday in the Sunni insurgent strongholds of Fallujah and Ramadi, killing up to 60 insurgents in strikes against allies of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a military statement said. The military launched what it called a “precision strike” against a house in Fallujah and followed it with a second strike in a nearby town. The second strike destroyed three buildings allegedly used by Mr. Zarqawi’s network.

Also yesterday, three U.S. Marines assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force were killed by hostile fire in separate incidents in the western Anbar province while conducting security operations, the military said.

The American Embassy identified the kidnapped Americans as Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong, but the identity of the British man was not disclosed. The three worked for Gulf Services Co., a United Arab Emirates based construction company.