Vladimir Zhirinovsky traveled to Iraq on a plane bearing a shipment of humanitarian aid. The Russian ultranationalist leader has lashed out at the United States’ insistence that Iraq prove it has eliminated its weapons of mass destruction before U.N. sanctions on the country are lifted.
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