Danish minister resigns over WMD
(CNN) -- Danish Defense Minister Svend Aage Jensby resigned Friday amid controversy over intelligence reports on whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
In a statement on a Defense Ministry Web site, Jensby said: "Immediately after the prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, returned to the country, I asked him permission to step down.
"The government has achieved amazing results and I do not want to burden it and my family with more harassment, which have been aimed at me personally."
The opposition parties and the Danish media have recently claimed that the foreign minister changed his statements about intelligence on whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Jensby has denied the accusations.
Denmark is a member of the coalition and has around 500 troops in southern Iraq.
