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Article: Saddam vows to fight if Iraq is attacked, carries out U.N. request to ban mass destruction weapons
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- AP Worldstream
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- February 15, 2003
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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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