World News 14-01-2005 who: White House spokesman Scott McClellan what: Says hunt for Saddam`s WMDs has been called off where: Washington DC when: Wednesday snippet: "The announcement came nearly two years after the president used the existence of an illegal arsenal as an excuse to invade Iraq," is The Mirror`s pointed assessment. Meanwhile, the violence in Iraq continues. On Saturday evening, US soldiers reportedly killed at least three civilians and two policemen following an attempted roadside bombing. Early on Monday, Reuters reported that gunmen had assassinated Baghdad`s deputy police chief and a suicide bomber driving a stolen patrol car had killed three people at a police station. On Tuesday, a roadside bomb killed seven Iraqis and wounded one south of Baghdad. On the same day, a suicide car bomb killed six people at the police headquarters in Tikrit. Wednesday`s Telegraph reported that 400 more British troops, currently based in Cyprus, were about to be posted to Iraq. [... more]

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