I have seen more ink, more airtime given to Saddam Hussein's bogus allegations than I have to the voices of the victims in all of this.

From our point of view, these are very serious allegations, and if true, very troublesome.

Saddam Hussein is one of the most violent mass murderers of this century or any other century. That's what's on trial here, not the US government, not the Iraqi government. It's Saddam Hussein.

I absolutely think that Saddam has made up the allegations and used them to ambush the judge and distract from the testimony.

Given what we have seen, the active redeployment of (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's) air defenses, the high state of alert, we think he is interested in much more than diplomacy, that he has ulterior motives to moving these around and we need to be prepared.

I can tell you we are aware of those kind of allegations, and we have seen claims where we view the fire as suspicious.