单选题 "The finding” in the second paragraph refers to______.

A、 Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction that could be deployed within 45 minutes
B、 British intelligence officers were wrong
C、 Iraq had no deployable chemical or biological weapons
D、 nothing will ever be found in Iraq

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】位于第二段段首的“That finding”承接上一段的内容的，因此它所指代的是上端末句中的“Iraq possessed…45 minutes”。故应选[A]。