US investigators have released accounts of the questioning of Saddam Hussein, offering a goldmine of historical and personal details on the Iraqi leader.
The documents released under freedom of information rules are from interviews and informal conversations he had in US custody with the FBI in early 2004. Saddam Hussein said he refused to allow UN weapons inspectors into Iraq to stop Iran knowing how weak it had become. And he scoffed at reports that he used body doubles to confuse assassins.The former Iraqi leader was interviewed by Arabic-speaking FBI agent George Piro after his capture nine months after the US-led invasion of Iraq.
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Washington POST; July 2, 2009:
By Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 2, 2009
Saddam Hussein told an FBI interviewer before he was hanged that he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he was worried about appearing weak to Iran, according to declassified accounts of the interviews released yesterday. The former Iraqi president also denounced Osama bin Laden as "a zealot" and said he had no dealings with al-Qaeda.
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Read the Documents: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB279/index.htm
http://www.journal-post.com/forum/main-forum/389-saddam-interview-tapes-released-pdf-files-included.html
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 279
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