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Article: Iraq denies possessing weapons of mass destruction
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- December 5, 2002
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Iraq denies possessing weapons of mass destruction
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq
Aziz has denied that his country possesses weapons of mass
destruction any longer, saying that the issue is only a pretext used
by the United States to wage a war against the oil-rich country.
"The fact is that we don't have weapons of mass destruction. We
don't have chemical, biological or nuclear weaponry, but we have
equipment which was defined as dual uses," Aziz said in an interview
with ABC television network in Baghdad on Wednesday. The interview
was posted on the ABC News website Thursday.
Aziz said that a war is not because of weapons of mass
destruction and ...