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A European member of Parliament may have provided UN weapons inspectors with fresh evidence that Iraq has materials which could be used to create weapons of mass destruction. Member of an official Parliamentary delegation visiting the UN in New York and possibly later going to Iraq, Baroness Nicholson - a Liberal democrat MEP - has reportedly delivered evidence to UN weapons inspector Dr Hans Blix which has come from Iraq in the past few days and is alleged to be new. Ms. Nicholson told reporters, "The evidence I gave to Dr. Blix identified at least two places where weapons of...

UNITED NATIONS - A British lawmaker on Monday handed chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix what she believes is evidence of two sites where Iraq has hidden material used to make weapons of mass destruction. Baroness Emma Nicholson, a member of Britain's House of Lords and the European Parliament, said she also gave Blix a form showing that Iraq as recently as last month was trying to order materials that could be used for banned weapons. "This information has come from inside Iraq in the last few days and has not been given to anybody else before," she told reporters...