The Bush administration remained convinced Iraqi weapons of mass destruction posed a threat to the United States, despite a CIA assessment that Iraq was unlikely to attack or use them unless provoked, a White House spokesman said on Wednesday.

The CIA letter quoted a senior U.S. intelligence official who saw a low chance of an unprovoked Iraqi attack for the foreseeable future and a "pretty high" chance of Baghdad striking out, possibly with biological and chemical weapons, if the United States attacked

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