Bush sees world safer without Saddam

His weekly radio broadcast came amid continuing unrest in Iraq, with a guerrilla rocket attack on a Baghdad hotel housing officials in the US-led administration and Iraqi police saying American soldiers had killed four more civilians.

"The world is safer today because, in Iraq, our coalition ended a regime that cultivated ties to terror while it built weapons of mass destruction," Bush said.

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US troops said they had found 23 SA-7 surface-to-air missiles and hundreds of weapons, including plastic explosives, buried in an orchard near Saddam's home town of Tikrit on Saturday.