‘Murderous’ Saddam plotting attack against us, Bush tells America

US president George Bush has called Saddam Hussein a “murderous tyrant” who might be plotting to attack America with biological and chemical weapons.

Saddam and his “nuclear holy warriors” were also building a nuclear weapons programme, Mr Bush said in an address to the American people on Monday night.

“If we allow that to happen, a terrible line would be crossed,” the president told civic group leaders at the Cincinnati Museum Centre. “Saddam Hussein would be in a position to blackmail anyone who opposes his aggression.