Iraq ready to answer any question raised by UN inspectors

Iraq's foreign minister Naji Sabri said that "Iraq is ready to answer any questions by top UN weapons inspectors when they come here next week, but insisted a 12,000-page arms report submitted to the united nations last month was comprehensive," INA reported today.

He dismissed "Washington's assertions it has proof Iraq is hiding banned weapons, hinting that the US is pursuing a psychological war against Iraq," the report said.

Washington "doesn't have real proof, just rumors and fabrications made by its agents here and there.. Its talk lacks credibility, " he said, adding that the US drive does not only target Iraq but also all those who stand against its hegemony arrogance." INA reported him saying.

Sabri said as for the sept.11 events, the minister affirmed that "the US has failed to involve Iraq in the so-called 'terror'" and is using weapons of mass destruction, in a "series of lies" as an excuse to attack Iraq.

He underscored that the US psychological war aims at giving cover to "Zionists crimes against Palestinian people and to revenge of Iraq who stood against the US and Zionist schemes," INA said.

US President George Bush said yesterday that he is "sick and tired of games and deception" being carried out by Iraq's Saddam Hussein and stressed once again that the Iraqi leader must disarm his nation of weapons of mass destruction as called for by the United Nations. "Time is running out....He must disarm," Bush said.

Sabri recalled US accusations over aluminum tubes,in using them in atomic weapons, whereas "the inspectors found no such link." He added, another example of US lies, that Iraq has imported uranium from African states, "while the inspectors proved nothing relevant," the official Iraqi news agency reported. Simply, the US and Britain have no evidence of Iraq's possessing to any banned activities", the foreign minister said. "The inceptors have found nothing and if they stay and check any corner in Iraq, they will find nothing because there is nothing to find," concluded Naji, INA reported.