US 'rejected Iraqi concessions'

A Lebanese-American businessman has said he conveyed a last-ditch Iraqi plea to the US administration to avoid war but the approach was rebuffed.

The offer from Saddam Hussein's regime was turned down about a week before US-led forces invaded Iraq in March, Imad Hage told the BBC.

He said the Iraqi intelligence chief told him in Beirut that Baghdad did not want a confrontation.

The Iraqis also insisted they had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

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Well, this just keeps on getting more interesting every day. It seems that the Iraqi's were ready to make some pretty big concessions to avoid war.

But was Hussein's regime willing to realize these concessions, is another thing.

Someone already started a thread on it, but it's fine by me i needed a second source.

[Edited on 6-11-2003 by gooking]