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White House: Dossier Offers 'Compelling Evidence' on Iraq
Aired September 24, 2002 - 13:11 ET
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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: To Washington, D.C. now, where White House correspondent John King joins us. He just got out of the briefing with Ari Fleischer.
John -- what do you know?
JOHN KING, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Kyra, some quick headlines from that briefing.
Ari Fleischer rejecting criticism that there is nothing new in this British dossier out today. Ari Fleischer saying the intelligence provided by the British government for the first time says that Iraq could get its chemical and biological weapons launched in as short as 45 minutes.
Ari Fleischer saying also it is new information that Saddam Hussein has tried to purchase uranium from Africa -- uranium ostensibly to be used in the Iraqi nuclear program.
All of this part of a joint effort by the United States and Great Britain to put forward information, evidence it says that Saddam Hussein is actively reconstituting his weapons of mass destruction programs.
Now, diplomatically, they are laying that out in public. Why? They're trying to convince skeptics at the United Nations Security Council to pass a tough new resolution. Ari Fleischer saying that diplomacy continues. The United States and Great Britain working on a draft.
We should know by the end of this week, based on our discussions here at the White House, whether that private diplomacy is paying off, whether the United States and Great Britain can convince -- and the three critical nations are Russia, France and China -- to support a tough new resolution in the Security Council -- Kyra.
PHILLIPS: John King at the White House -- thanks, John.
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Aired September 24, 2002 - 13:11 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: To Washington, D.C. now, where White House correspondent John King joins us. He just got out of the briefing with Ari Fleischer.
John -- what do you know?
JOHN KING, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Kyra, some quick headlines from that briefing.
Ari Fleischer rejecting criticism that there is nothing new in this British dossier out today. Ari Fleischer saying the intelligence provided by the British government for the first time says that Iraq could get its chemical and biological weapons launched in as short as 45 minutes.
Ari Fleischer saying also it is new information that Saddam Hussein has tried to purchase uranium from Africa -- uranium ostensibly to be used in the Iraqi nuclear program.
All of this part of a joint effort by the United States and Great Britain to put forward information, evidence it says that Saddam Hussein is actively reconstituting his weapons of mass destruction programs.
Now, diplomatically, they are laying that out in public. Why? They're trying to convince skeptics at the United Nations Security Council to pass a tough new resolution. Ari Fleischer saying that diplomacy continues. The United States and Great Britain working on a draft.
We should know by the end of this week, based on our discussions here at the White House, whether that private diplomacy is paying off, whether the United States and Great Britain can convince -- and the three critical nations are Russia, France and China -- to support a tough new resolution in the Security Council -- Kyra.
PHILLIPS: John King at the White House -- thanks, John.
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