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| White House: Weapons Discovery 'Serious' |
| 2003-01-17 |
| The White House said Friday that chemical warheads found in Iraq had not been declared by Saddam Hussein's government as required by U.N. rules, and called the discovery "troubling and serious." Presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer stopped short of calling the weapons cache a breach of an anti-arms U.N. resolution, saying the United States has already found Saddam in violation of several U.N. rules. U.S. officials hope the discovery of 11 empty chemical warheads at a storage area 75 miles south of Baghdad will bolster their case against Saddam. Iraq said the weapons were on its 12,000-page declaration required by the U.N., an assertion disputed by Fleischer. "Yeah, it's in there somewhere. You could look it up..." Fleischer also dismissed Saddam Hussein's claim Friday that Iraqi enemies would That's what press secretaries say instead of "Shuddup, Sammy!" |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |