"We have told the world we are not producing these kind of weapons, but it seems that the world is drugged, absent or in a weak position," President Saddam Hussein said Sunday during talks with visiting Belarus envoy Nikolai Ivanchenko.
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Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix has said the Iraqi weapons declaration earlier this month leaves so many unanswered questions that it is impossible to confirm the accuracy of Iraq's claim to have no weapons of mass destruction. Blix has asked the United States and Britain to share intelligence to help inspectors determine the truth.

President Bush, pointing to what U.S. officials call fabrications and omissions in the declaration, already has declared Iraq in "material breach" of U.N. demands but has decided to hold off any military response for at least a month as the Americans seek to build U.N. support for attacking Saddam.
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On the streets, Iraqis expected war.

"Of course I'm afraid," said a 35-year-old woman shopping Sunday in Baghdad who gave only her first name, Solafa. "Most people don't know what is going on, the media are keeping people in a coma. TV doesn't broadcast the latest news, some people don't even know that there are inspectors in the country."

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