Article: Saddam vows to fight if Iraq is attacked, carries out U.N. request to ban mass destruction weapons

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Dateline: BAGHDAD, Iraq Vowing to fight with "faith and holy war," Saddam Hussein stepped in at the last minute to ban weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, fulfilling a long-standing U.N. request in an attempt to avert a U.S.- led attack on his country.

A senior Iraqi official, meanwhile, pledged Iraq will do "whatever is possible" to cooperate with U.N. inspectors searching for such weapons.

"We will do whatever is possible in our hands to reach the ultimate truth about the absence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz told a news conference in Rome after meeting Pope John Paul II on Friday.

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