Iraq Predicts Arms Inspectors Will Find Nothing

Published November 16, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Iraqi officials say upcoming U.N. arms inspections will show Saddam Hussein's regime has no weapons of mass destructions. Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix is due in Baghdad Monday. NPR's Kate Seelye reports.

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