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Sunday newspaper reveals Saddam has WMD and ordered them to be used

Journalist | 07.12.2003 13:54

A national Sunday newspaper has revealed that Saddam Hussein ordered his troops to use weapons of mass destruction at the start of the war on Iraq in March. The source comes from an Iraqi who suurendered during the war. He claims did have stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction before the war as well and ordered troops to use them. Senior generals though refused to obey orders to use such weapons.

Most of Iraqis generals were not prepared to fight for Saddam's regime and so ignored orders to use weapons of mass destruction preffering instead to surrender to allied troops. There are also reports that the Iraqi regime hid the weapons of mass destruction in Syria before the regime collapsed.

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Journalist my arse

07.12.2003 14:38

You could at least say you are badly referring to a Torygraph article, where it reveals an Iraqi Military man has claimed to be THE source for the 45 minute claim

I don't think indymedia's job is to be re-reporting claims printed by the subscription required Torygraph... anyone interested here is the bbc report on it  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3297771.stm

It's not quite as reported by our journalist above - but we wouldn't want accuracy getting in the way of spam on the newswire would we

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another story

07.12.2003 14:38

A third story says that all generals said they believed the other general had the weapons of mass destruction. Officials in US army told reporters that they asked each time a leader of the army they met, if they had WMD, and if not why they had all these masks and other gear to protect them. And each time the iraqi army-leaders said that he thought other leaders had them. No-one had...

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