Saddam denies he has weapons of mass destruction

Saddam Hussein, in an interview broadcast on Channel 4 tonight, said that Iraq does not have a relationship with al-Qaida and reiterated that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction.

“If we had a relationship with al-Qaida, and we believed in that relationship, we wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it,” the Iraqi leader said in the TV interview with a former Labour MP, Tony Benn.