West's Rift Deepens over Iraq

World | January 23, 2003, Thursday // 00:00

US Secretary of State Colin Powell has questioned the commitment of France and Germany to disarming Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein after the European allies publicly spoke out against a war on Iraq. As disagreements over how to deal with Iraq deepened, Mr Powell said the United States would hold Iraq's oilfields "in trust" for the Iraqi people in the event of a US-led invasion. Earlier, US President George W Bush warned that any Iraqi who used weapons of mass destruction against US troops or Iraqi civilians would be tried for war crimes afterwards.

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