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Iraq 'Couldn't Care Less' About U.S. Threats: U.S. Air Strikes Have Already Begun
DAMASCUS (Reuters) -- Iraq said on Tuesday it did not fear threats of military action from the United States, a day after Washington said it was safer to act against Baghdad's weapons program than to do nothing. "We could not care less about the threats that are out there. Iraq has a long history with these threats and such despotism," Iraqi Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan told reporters in Syria after meeting President Bashar al-Assad. Iraq reported fresh U.S. air strikes on Tuesday on no-fly zones in the north and south of the country. The U.S. military said American planes had attacked a radar site in northern Iraq and an air defense command facility in the south. On Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney laid out the case for pre-emptive action against Iraq, citing mortal danger to the United States. Cheney warned of the danger of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction falling into the hands of terrorists and said: "The risk of inaction is far greater than the risk of action." In Baghdad, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) quoted President Saddam Hussein as saying on Tuesday U.S. action against Iraq would be an attack on all Arabs. "The American threats do not target Iraq alone but all the Arab nation," INA quoted Saddam as saying during a meeting with Qatar's foreign minister.

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