US President George Bush used his annual state of the union address on 28 January to warn the American people and the world of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, and vowed to take military action if necessary to disarm him. 'We will consult, but let there be no misunderstanding - if Saddam Hussein does not fully disarm for the safety of our people, we will lead a coalition to disarm him,' he said. Bush also revealed that Secretary of State Colin Powell would present the UN Security Council with intelligence evidence of Iraq's concealment of weapons from UN inspectors and of Baghdad's links with Al-Qaeda on 5 February. His verdict on Iraqi compliance with UN Resolution 1441 was far more damning than chief weapons inspector Hans Blix's the day before. 'He [Saddam Hussein] has -shown his utter contempt for the UN, and for the opinion of the world -The dictator of Iraq is not disarming. He is deceiving.' Like Blix, Bush listed a number of banned materials not accounted for by Iraq's December weapons declaration.