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Washington - Defending his decision to invade Iraq, U.S. President George W. Bush said that although stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons have not been found, Saddam Hussein had the capacity to produce such arms and could have developed a nuclear weapon over time. In an interview with NBC's Meet the Press, Bush denied he led the United States into war under false pretenses, but acknowledged that some prewar intelligence apparently was inaccurate. He did not directly respond to election-year allegations that his administration exaggerated intelligence to bolster a march to oust the Iraqi president. "We will find out about the weapons of mass destruction that we all thought were there," Mr. Bush said in the interview taped Saturday in the Oval Office. Baghdad - A United Nations team met with Iraqi governing council members Sunday, the first of many discussions on the political future of the country that will take place in the coming days. London - Police have promised to track down the labour agents of 19 mainly Chinese migrants who drowned on a beach gathering shellfish, saying their investigation could become a global inquiry. Detectives on Sunday promised to do everything possible to find out who had sent the 19 low-wage workers to gather cockles in Morecambe Bay, Lancashire, where they were engulfed by the fast-rising tides of the Irish Sea on Thursday.
