France disputes Iraq bribe claims Allegations that French officials were offered bribes by Saddam Hussein are unverified, France has said. An official US report said that the former Iraqi leader sought to influence world figures with "oil vouchers" in an attempt to get UN sanctions lifted. French businessmen and politicians were among the recipients, it said. The report, which found Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction at the time of the US-led invasion, has fuelled the debate about justification for the war. The BBC's David Bamford says that on the face of it, the ISG's evidence about alleged bribery...