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Saddam Hussein Said WMD Talk Helped Him Look Strong to Iran
washingtonpost.com - 7/2/2009
Saddam Hussein Said WMD Talk Helped Him Look Strong to Iran
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Saddam Hussein Talks to the FBI
gwu.edu - 7/2/2009
Saddam Hussein Talks to the FBI
— gwu.edu — Saddam Hussein Talks to the FBI: Twenty Interviews and Five Conversations with "High Value Detainee # 1"... in 2004 National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 279 Edited by Joyce Battle Assisted by Brendan McQuade Posted - July 1, 2009 For ... (more) Saddam Hussein Talks to the FBI

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Did the toppling of Saddam Hussein lead to recent events in Iran? - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
slate.com - 7/6/2009
Did the toppling of Saddam Hussein lead to recent events in Iran? - By Christopher Hitchens - ...
— slate.com — Hitchens may very well be right, that a movement is underway within the elite Iranian clergy to... clean house. It is hard to imagine that will be a bad thing for those of us in the West, but is it a particularly good thing? I suppose this question is ... (more) Did the toppling of Saddam Hussein lead to recent events ...

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washingtonpost.com - 6/25/2009
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Newspaper Roundup for July 2, 2009
CNSNews.com Headlines — ... Washington Post: Saddam Hussein told U.S. that specter of nukes made him appear strong Pointed to Iranian threat Washington Times: ...

The WonkLine: July 2, 2009
Wonk Room — ... The Washington Post reports that “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.” Hussein also said he had no dealings with al-Qaeda. ...

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