Straw warns Hussein to come clean about weapons or face end to regime

TIME is running out for Saddam Hussein to rid his country of weapons of mass destruction or face regime change, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said in a TV interview broadcast yesterday.

The warning to the Iraqi dictator the strongest yet from the Government followed a call by US president George Bush to the UN to "show some backbone" and confront Mr Hussein over Iraq.

Mr Straw, speaking from the UN, where intensive discussions are under way about a possible new resolution against Baghdad, said there was not a foreign minister in the world that did not want to see the back of the Iraqi president.