Washington, Nov 01: US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said there is no evidence to suggest ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is coordinating some of the attacks against US forces in Iraq. On a television interview, Powell flatly rejected comments of unnamed senior US officials who were quoted in a leading American newspaper as saying there were indications Saddam may be directing attacks from his hometown of Tikrit.
"I speak on the record and I don't know what these sources or who they were saying, but when I saw the story and came in and pulled up all the intelligence I could from my people as well as talking to the people at the agency, I don't know the basis of those stories," Powell said yesterday. "I don't know where he is or what he's doing, but we really don't have the evidence to put together a claim that he is pulling all the strings among these remnants in Baghdad and other parts of the country that are causing us the difficulty," he said. "There is no evidence to support that issue," Powell said, according to a transcript of the interview released by the State Department.
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