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Rumsfeld:2002 Iraq WMD Remark May Have Been Misleading
WASHINGTON (AP)--Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld acknowledged Wednesday that remarks he made in 2002 claiming to know where Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were stored may have been misleading.

In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Rumsfeld was reminded by Sen. Edward Kennedy and other Democrats on the committee that in September 2002 he had claimed "we know" where weapons of mass destruction are stored in Iraq.

Explaining that remark, Rumsfeld told the panel that he was referring to suspected weapons sites, but he acknowledged that he had made it sound like he was talking about actual weapons.

The remark "probably turned out not to be what one would have preferred, in retrospect," Rumsfeld said. ...