Baghdad, Iraq ? American and British officials are rushing to judgment about Iraq’s weapons report and should wait for U.N. arms inspectors to do their job, Saddam Hussein’s chief scientific adviser said Sunday.

Amir al-Saadi complained that Secretary of State Colin Powell and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw based their criticisms on “old, rehashed reports” from the previous “discredited” arms inspection program in the 1990s.

Al-Saadi said Iraq had answered many of the leftover questions in its report or in personal interviews with arms inspection teams that returned last month.

He listed two examples concerning nuclear weapons and production of nerve gas, saying Iraq proved it had answered questions being raised anew by the United States or Britain.

In one case, he said, tests were performed in the United States that showed spent Iraqi missiles contained traces of the gas but that later independent tests by French and Swiss labs found no such results.

He accused Powell and Straw of ignoring Iraq’s replies and making judgments before the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission could fully examine the Iraqi report.

“Why don’t they let the specialized organs of the United Nations get on with their task?” he asked at a televised news conference. “Why interfere in this rude fashion?”

The Iraqi president on Sunday also accused the international community of doing too little to stop America’s continued aggression toward Iraq, the country’s official news agency reported.

“We have told the world we are not producing these kind of weapons, but it seems that the world is drugged, absent or in a weak position,” Saddam said during talks Sunday with visiting Belarus envoy Nikolai Ivanchenko.

Iraq’s state-run newspapers expressed skepticism Sunday that America and Britain have information that could lead U.N. experts to caches of illegal arms.

“Everybody knows that if they had concrete information, they would have put it on television all around the world before giving it to the inspection teams,” Babil, the newspaper run by Saddam’s son Odai, said in a front-page editorial.