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Athens - A British intelligence dossier "did not correspond to reality" by suggesting Saddam Hussein's regime could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes, the chief UN weapons inspector said in an interview published Sunday. Dimitris Perricos said in Sunday's Eleftherotypia newspaper that inspections found no evidence supporting American and British accusations that Saddam possessed an arsenal capable of widespread death and damage. The the report is part of a high-level inquiry in Britain into the apparent suicide of government weapons scientist David Kelly, who was identified as the source for a British Broadcasting Corp. claim the government "sexed up" intelligence about Iraq's weapons programs to build support for war. Jakarta, Indonesia - The Muslim radical who helped carry out last year's Bali nightclub bombings told a court Monday that he also obtained the explosives used in the deadly attack on the Philippine ambassador's residence in Jakarta in 2000. "I only provided the chemicals. I didn't know what they were to be used for," said Amrozi Nurhasyim, who has been sentenced to death for similarly buying explosives in the Bali blasts. Najaf, - Vowing revenge and beating their chests, more than 300,000 Shiites in Iraq marched Sunday behind the rose-strewn coffin of a beloved cleric assassinated in a car bombing.
