German minister accuses US of deceit

Germany’s development minister today accused the US of deceiving the world over its reasons for waging war on Iraq.

Sun, 01 Jun, 2003 - 16:06

Germany’s development minister today accused the US of deceiving the world over its reasons for waging war on Iraq.

“We see in the current discussion that it was about oil, it wasn’t about weapons of mass destruction,” Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul said at a party meeting in Berlin.

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