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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6529)	1/9/2004 6:50:29 PM
From: Bris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15987

Why would she say this what's to gain? Rice: No Evidence Iraq Moved WMD to Syria Friday January 9, 2004 9:16 PM WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States has no credible evidence that Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria early last year before the U.S.-led war that drove Saddam Hussein from power, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said Friday. Rice said, ``Any indication that something like that happened would be a very serious matter. ``But I want to be very clear: we don't, at this point, have any indications that I would consider credible and firm that that has taken place, but we will tie down every lead,'' she said at a White House briefing about Bush's trip Monday to a hemispheric summit in Mexico. In nine months, arms control experts in Iraq have failed to find a single item from a long list of weapons of mass destruction. The Bush administration cited an alleged weapons stockpile in Iraq as a primary reason for launching the war against Saddam's government. ``We're going to follow every lead on what may have happened here,'' Rice said. ``I don't think we are at the point that we can make a judgment on this issue. There hasn't been any hard evidence that such a thing happened. ``But obviously we're going to follow up every lead,'' she said, ``and it would be a serious problem if that, in fact, did happen.'' Rice said the United States talks with Syria about a number of issues, ``including the borders with Iraq and what may have happened in the past there and what may be continuing to happen there.'' Mainly, she said, the United States opposes Syria's support for terrorism, particularly its support for anti-Palestinian groups Hezbollah and Hamas

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6529)	1/9/2004 7:24:45 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 15987

Clinton believed Iraq had WMD January 9, 2004 - 2:05PM theage.com.au Former US president Bill Clinton said in October during a visit to Portugal that he was convinced Iraq had weapons of mass destruction up until the fall of Saddam Hussein, Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso said. "When Clinton was here recently he told me he was absolutely convinced, given his years in the White House and the access to privileged information which he had, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction until the end of the Saddam regime," he said in an interview with Portuguese cable news channel SIC Noticias. Clinton, a Democrat who left office in 2001, met with Durao Barroso on October 21 when he travelled to Lisbon to give a speech on globalisation. The US justified going to war against Iraq last year citing the threat posed by Baghdad's weapons of mass destruction. Republican President George W Bush used Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and Saddam Hussein's ties to terrorism as the main case to the United Nations for the US-led war against Iraq. But since the US occupation of Iraq, American forces have failed to uncover any chemical, biological or nuclear weapons after the war. Hundreds of experts are still scouring Iraq in the hunt. An influential Washington think-tank said the Bush administration "systematically" inflated the threat from Iraq's weapons programs in a bid to strengthen its push for military action against Iraq last year. In its report, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace also said it was unlikely that Iraq could have destroyed, hidden or moved out of the country hundreds of weapons of mass destruction without Washington detecting some sign of activity