US, Britain Seek International Support on Move Against Iraq

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US, Britain Seek International Support on Move Against Iraq

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Visiting British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Saturday his country and the United States will seek "the broadest possible international support" in dealing with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein as he ended a three-hour consultation with US President George W. Bush at Camp David.

Speaking to reporters at the Andrews Air Force Base before returning home, Blair said, "People should have confidence that we will approach this issue in a sensible and measured way. We will do it on the basis of the broadest possible international support."

"The Iraqi regime has chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability," Blair said. "The threat is real. It's important for us to deal with it as swiftly as we possibly can now."

Before their meeting at Camp David, Both Blair and Bush are indicating possible nuclear construction by Iraq, although a spokesman for the international agency in charge of nuclear inspection said no conclusions could be come to so far.

"I don't know what more evidence we need" to indicate the Iraqi president's attempt to develop weapons of mass destruction, Bush told reporters.

Blair said, "We only need to look at the report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to realize what has been going on at a former nuclear weapon site."

The New York Times reported Friday that a team of United Nations weapons inspectors, who were studying satellite photography, have identified several nuclear-related sites in Iraq where new construction or other unexplained changes have occurred since the last international inspections nearly 4 years ago.

Mark Gwozdecky, a spokesman for the IAEA in Vienna, Austria, said on Saturday that "there is no new information about any Iraqi nuclear activity."

He said those photos may be meaningless.

"Until we get inspectors on the ground, we can't draw any conclusion about whether they are in compliance with the (United Nations) Security Council resolutions with regard to nuclear activities."

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