US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said America knows Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, and that it is up to Baghdad, not UN weapons inspectors, to prove otherwise. Speaking in Washington just days before Iraq is due to submit a declaration on its weapons, Mr Rumsfeld also had stark words for the UN, which, he said, was faced with a choice. "When the Iraqis send in their declaration, if it is false, will the UN continue the pattern of the past of allowing Iraq to ignore UN resolutions? "Or will the member countries hold Iraq to its obligations?"

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