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Article: Bush Administration Declares Iraq in Violation of U.N. Resolution.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- December 20, 2002
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Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 20--WASHINGTON -- After completing a review of Iraq's report on its weapons programs, the Bush administration Thursday declared Iraq to be in "material breach" of a U.N. resolution ordering it to disarm, but the White House is putting off for several weeks a decision on whether to push for the use of military force.
U.N. weapons inspectors said Iraq's 12,000-page report on its weapons programs included little new information and no proof that it destroyed the chemical and biological agents that U.N. inspectors had confirmed it possessed before leaving Iraq under duress in 1998.
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