Famed ex-information minister says he spoke in good faith

Saturday, June 28, 2003

CAIRO, Egypt -- The once-defiant former Iraqi information minister appeared humbled and evasive in a TV interview aired Friday, describing the fall of the Iraqi regime to coalition forces as an "earthquake" and refusing to blame Saddam Hussein for the war.

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