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Us military denies report of saddam offer Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20030921/ts_nm/iraq_saddam_dc_1 http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20030921/ts_nm/iraq_saddam_dc_1 U.S. Military Denies Report of Saddam Exile Offer Sun Sep 21,11:57 AM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Sunday denied a British media report that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had offered money and information on weapons of mass destruction in return for safe passage to the ex-Soviet republic of Belarus. The Sunday Mirror newspaper said an aide of the fugitive (news - Y! TV) ex-president had approached U.S. forces in Tikrit and led them to a house in the suburbs. There, they were given a letter, purportedly handwritten by Saddam, proposing talks. It said negotiations had been going on for nine days covering weaponry and bank accounts containing tens of millions of dollars. Lt. Col. William MacDonald, spokesman for the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division which controls Tikrit north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, said the story was wrong. "The 4th Infantry Division has not had any contact with any former regime members regarding Saddam Hussein's disposition," he told Reuters. U.S. commanders in Tikrit say they believe Saddam, on the run since he was ousted by U.S.-led forces in April, could well be in hiding in his home-town area where he still enjoys strong support and has close tribal and family ties. The newspaper suggested Saddam had chosen Belarus as a country with a leadership still rooted in a Soviet past that might show sympathy to an erstwhile ally. The United States, which invaded Iraq (news - web sites) in March citing a danger from weapons of mass destruction, has said it would not negotiate with Saddam. It has so far failed to find any evidence of nuclear, chemical or biological arms.

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