Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz said today that Iraq would welcome UN weapons inspector Hans Blix and that his new inspections would expose as "lies" US charges that Baghdad has weapons of mass destruction.
"We are going to expose the truth. The Americans are worried because the truth is going to be exposed and their lies are going to be exposed," Aziz told reporters in Baghdad in one of the first personal statements by the Iraqi leadership since President Saddam Hussein agreed on Wednesday to new inspections.
"America accuses Iraq of possessing weapons of mass destruction and these are lies," Aziz said.
