"After 24 days of inspections covering practically all the sites named in those reports and after the submission of our declaration on December 7, the lies and baseless allegations have been uncovered," General Amer al-Saadi said, referring to recent reports by the British and U.S. governments.

Washington and London had convinced "UNMOVIC (the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission), the IAEA (the International Atomic Energy Agency) and the whole world to believe they have ironclad evidence that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and promised to provide the evidence," Saadi told journalists in Baghdad, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

Referring to a dossier published several weeks ago by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and then one by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, he said they were "long on allegations and short on evidence ... The report was a hodge-podge of half-truths, naive short-sighted allegations and lies."

"The true part of the half-truths appear in detail in our declaration", said Saadi, who is a science advisor to Saddam.

Saadi added that Iraq had no more documentation that it can provide support its position that it has no weapons of mass destruction, but was ready to cooperate in any reasonable way on clearing up doubts.

"We do not have any more documentation, but we are ready as (UN Security Council) Resolution 1284 said to work and cooperate with UNMOVIC to find ways of resolving the remaining disarmament issues, provided also that an assessment is made of the significance of those remaining issues," said Saadi.

Resolution 1284, passed in 1999, created the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC).

"Now, instead of declaring bankruptcy, or at least sacking their advisors, we have (British Foreign Secretary Jack) Straw and (U.S. Secretary of State Colin) Powell declaring that we are in material breach" of Resolution 1441.

On Thursday, Powell claimed Iraq's declaration "totally fails to address what we had learned about Iraq's prohibited weapons programs before the inspectors were effectively forced out in 1998."

A day earlier, Straw said Iraqi claims to have abandoned the development of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons were an "obvious falsehood."

Earlier in Cairo, George Galloway, senior vice chairman at the Parliamentary Labor Party commented on Straw’s reaction to that dossier by saying that the British government is the one who commits obvious falsehoods.

"Well Mr. Straw, your government knows a thing or two about 'obvious falsehoods'. Your government is now in the British public mind characterized by whole successions of 'obvious falsehoods'," Galloway said in his speech at the International Campaign Against U.S. Aggression on Iraq (ICCA), hosted by Cairo on December 18-19.

He referred to the dossier about Iraq’s weapons recently produced by the British government as "a pop fiction, a weapon of mass deception."

"In that dossier, you made allegation after allegation about site after site every single one of which has turned out to be an 'obvious falsehood'. Every place you mentioned that has been visited by the inspectors has been found to be empty of the things you said were in there."

"So Mr. Straw, the problem for you is that as far as the rest of the world is concerned most people believe that the 'obvious falsehoods' are coming from you and not from Iraq," Galloway said.

Saadi also asked on what basis Iraq had been declared in material breach and whether new evidence was yet to be submitted.

U.S. and British allegations were "based on old, rehashed reports left ... by the discredited and defunct UNSCOM," the previous UN inspection agency that left Baghdad in December 1998 just ahead of a U.S.-British air campaign against Iraq, he said.

Asked about UN inspectors interviewing Iraqi scientists abroad, Saadi said "it is their privilege to do that if they think it is appropriate. We haven't seen any indications from the UNMOVIC or IAEA they want to resort to that yet, but they want the list and they will have the list, definitely.