washingtonpost.com - 7/2/2009
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gwu.edu - 7/2/2009
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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 ...
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Saddam Hussein Talks to the FBI
slate.com - 7/6/2009
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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 ...
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Did the toppling of Saddam Hussein lead to recent events ...
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Saddam faked WMD's?
Israel Matzav —
... The Washington Post is reporting that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein told the FBI before he was executed that he had faked having weapons of mass destruction to deter Iran from attacking him. 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. Hussein, in ...
Saddam Hussein from beyond the grave
Power Line —
... The Washington Post reports on an interview of Saddam Hussein conducted by an FBI agent shortly before Saddam was hanged. The former dictator of Iraq said that he allowed the world to believe he had wapons of mass destruction because he did not want to appear weak to Iran. Going further, Saddam claimed that he felt so vulnerable to the threat from Iran that he would have been prepared to seek a "security agreement" with the U.S. ...
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