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3 May 2003

FORGET oil and weapons of mass destruction – at least as we know them. The war in Iraq was fought over technology salvaged from a crashed alien spaceship. That’s the whisper doing the rounds in UFO-watching circles, as reported by New Zealand website Stuff ().

According to this theory, a UFO crashed in Iraq in 1998. Saddam, shrewdly guessing the potential of the technology carried on board, had it whisked away before United Nations weapons inspectors could find it, so that his men could take it apart and learn how to make spaceships and sophisticated new weapons.…

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