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Documents Prove Saddam Had No Weapons Of Mass Destruction
March 21, 2006 10:00 p.m. EST
Andrea Moore - All Headline News Staff Reporter
Baghdad, Iraq (AHN) - U.S. government translations of audiotapes shows
an exasperated Saddam Hussein and top aides searching for ways in the
1990s to prove to the world that they had given up banned weapons.
In one transcript from 1996, Saddam wondered whether U.N. inspectors
would "roam Iraq for 50 years'' in a pointless hunt for weapons of
mass destruction asking, "When is this going to end?''
Saddam's goal in the 1990s was to have the Security Council lift the
economic sanctions strangling the Iraqi economy but he was thwarted by
what he and aides viewed as U.S. hard-liners blocking Security Council
action.
In 2004, after an exhaustive investigation, U.S. experts confirmed
Iraq had eliminated its weapons of mass destruction long ago, a
finding that discredited the Bush administration's stated rationale
for invading Iraq in 2003.
The newly released documents are translated from Arabic-language
transcripts from top-level Iraqi meetings - dating from about 1996-97
back to the period soon after the 1991 Gulf War, when the U.N.
Security Council sent inspectors to disarm Iraq.
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