Egypt denies claims Mubarak knew of WMD

EGYPT yesterday denied remarks by retired US General Tommy Franks that President Hosni Mubarak told him that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

"Such a claim is void of truth," Egyptian presidential spokesman Magad Abdel Fattah told the official Middle East News Agency.

In an interview with the US Parade magazine to promote his book, American Soldier, to be released this week, Franks recalled both Mr Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah told him two months before the Iraq war that Saddam had chemical and biological weapons.