The latest, according to Radio 4's Today programme: unconfirmed reports that Saddam Hussein may have ordered the use of chemical weapons if the situation gets bad enough.
Note all the qualifiers: the propagandists are being a little more careful now. But they know they will still have achieved their aim, which is to spread about an entirely invented story that Iraqi forces are using chemical weapons.
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Date: 2003-03-25 01:26 (UTC)Note all the qualifiers: the propagandists are being a little more careful now. But they know they will still have achieved their aim, which is to spread about an entirely invented story that Iraqi forces are using chemical weapons.