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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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- September 19, 2002
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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 ...