Powel: US will not push Saddam out if he disarms

US Secretary of State Colin Powell is assuring the Arab world the White House demand for regime change in Iraq aims at disarmament, not ousting President Saddam Hussein.

“If he co-operates, then the basis of changed-regime policy has shifted because his regime has, in fact, changed its policy to one of co-operation,” Powell said in an interview with a London-based Arab newspaper.