CBS: Saddam: we will not destroy al-Somoud Missiles
Iraq-UN, Politics, 2/25/2003

The Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announced yesterday in an interview with CBS news that he does not intend to destroy al- Somoud missiles, as asked to do by the UN chief weapons inspector.

The UN chief weapons inspector claims that these missiles exceed the limited allowed range of 90 minles that they can reach by some 20 miles according to some reports.

CBS said that Saddam Hussein denied these missile to have had constituted a violation of the UN resolutions concerning Iraq, and that he does not intend to destroy them nor to vow to do so as requested by chief UN inspector Hans Blix.

Last Friday, Blix sent a message to Lt. Gen. Amer al-Saad'di, the advisor of the Iraqi President asking him for the Iraqi government to start destruction of missile al-Somoud 2 before next Saturday under the supervision of the UN inspectors.

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