Blair to provide evidence against Saddam

Published April 22, 2002

LONDON, April 21: The British Prime Minister Tony Blair has dispelled impressions that a dossier of evidence that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction has been “pulled” for not being strong enough to convince sceptics that military action is justified.

Mr Blair told the BBC that the document of evidence would be made available “at the appropriate time, adding “it wasn’t pulled. He said that the evidence is “simply vast”.