Article: Saddam Hussein says Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction and accuses U.S. of "fabricating" falsehoods as pretext for war

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Dateline: UNITED NATIONS Saddam Hussein declared Thursday that Iraq is free of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and invited any country to see for itself that the United States has been lying about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction as a pretext to wage war.

The Iraqi president _ in a letter read to the United Nations _ accused U.S. President George W. Bush of portraying the weapons issue as the greatest danger to the future of the world and insinuating that Iraq was linked to the Sept. 11 attacks to incite Americans "to accept the U.S. administration's schemes of aggression as a fait accompli."

Iraq's Foreign Minister Naji Sabri read excerpts of ...

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