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March 30, 2003: Rumsfeld Says Iraq’s Chemical and Biological Weapons are Near ‘Tikrit and Baghdad and East, West, South and North Somewhat’

2003-03-30

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tells George Stephanopolous of ABC News: “We know where they [the chemical and biological weapons] are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.” [ABC, 4/30/2003; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 7/17/2003]