VOT3R (Free subscription) | yesterday
Saddam Hussein loved to talk - and to b.s. his sole interrogator, FBI Supervisory Special Agent George Piro. But Piro - backed up by a team of FBI agents and crack CIA analysts - knew Saddam’s history too well. Where there were gaps, Piro was able to parry with the imprisoned leader to get credible...
The Dignified Rant (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Once again, for the record, President Bush did not mislead us into war . And perhaps we should consider why Saddam feared Iran: Saddam Hussein believed Iran was a significant threat to Iraq and left open the possibility that he had weapons of mass destruction rather than appear vulnerable, according to declassified FBI documents on interrogations of the former Iraqi leader. "Hussein believed that...
turenchi (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Former president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, who was executed for crimes against humanity, refused to allow United Nations? weapons inspectors into Iraq in 2002 in order to stop Iran from knowing how weak it had become.This is contained in the accounts of the questioning of Saddam Hussein released yesterday which offered a goldmine of historical and personal details on the Iraqi leader. According to the...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Correspondents in Washington | July 03 EIGHTEEN months before he was hanged, Saddam Hussein told the FBI he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he was worried about appearing weak to Iran, reports said yesterday. According to declassified accounts of the FBI interviews released yesterday, the former Iraqi president said he felt so vulnerable to the perceived threat...
Fore Left! (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
This WaPo story on the Piro-Saddam interviews by Glenn Kessler is designed as a vintage Bush-bash but actually opens a rather revealing portal towards vindication. Background--George Piro was the Arabic-speaking FBI interrogator who debriefed Saddam in 2004, detailed last year in Ron Kessler's book (discussed here). Not sure if the Kessler guys are related. A lefty group who has
ChattahBox (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
(ChattahBox) — After years of debate and unjustified deaths, recently declassified FBI files recounting interrogations and ‘casual conversations’ with the executed dictator, Saddam Hussein, prove that his ‘WMD’ program was a paranoid lie. In these new documents, just released by the National Security Archive, Hussein is quoted verbatim in conversations with FBI agent,...
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Details were from more than 100 pages of notes written by George Piro, an FBI special agent who interviewed Saddam after he was nabbed at the farm. The notes of the FBI interviews were made public by the National Security Archive, a non-governmental research institute.
Barcepundit (English edition) (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
IT'S TRUE, the whole "Iraq has WMDs" stuff was a gigantic lie. A hoax. A big load of crap. Yes, but not by Bush and his poodles, but by Saddam himself (note to fact-resistant people out there: the White House occupant, who ultimately gave the green light for this document release, is not Bushh anymore but Obama, a fierce war opponent): EIGHTEEN months before he was hanged, Saddam Hussein...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
• Deposed dictator calls Osama bin Laden a 'zealot' • Iraqi told interviewers religion and government 'should not mix' Saddam Hussein remained preoccupied with the threat from neighbouring Iran as the US-led invasion loomed and would have sought a security pact with the US if UN sanctions were lifted, he told an FBI interviewer in his jail cell before his execution. In more than two dozen...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Yesterday, the National Security Archive released declassified FBI reports detailing both the bureau’s interrogations and “casual conversations” with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. According to the documents, Hussein told FBI agent George Piro (one of only a few agents who spoke Arabic) that he let the world believe he had weapons of mass destruction because [...]
Counterterrorism Blog (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Three months into interrogating Saddam Hussein, the FBI had heard no bombshells. There had been no startling boasts by Iraq’s ousted president of ordering the Kurds in northern Iraq to be gassed, nor had he bragged of sending his thugs to slaughter Shi’a in the south to quash the uprising that followed the first Gulf war. But the more the FBI confronted him with its painstakingly-gathered...
Mouth of the Potomac (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Three months into interrogating Saddam Hussein, the FBI had heard no bombshells. There had been no startling boasts by Iraq’s ousted president of ordering the Kurds in northern Iraq to be gassed, nor had he bragged of sending his thugs to slaughter Shi’a in the south to quash the uprising that followed the first Gulf war. But the more the FBI confronted him with its painstakingly-gathered...
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
By James Gordon Meek June 26, 2009 Courtesy Of The New York Daily News Part 1 Where were Iraq’s WMD? How close was Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda, really? These were vital - but still unanswered - questions when the Iraqi despot was yanked out of a spider hole in December 2003 and placed in U.S. military detention. Lives were at stake - along with the entire political rationale for the U.S.-led coalition...
Mouth of the Potomac (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Saddam Hussein loved to talk - and to b.s. his sole interrogator, FBI Supervisory Special Agent George Piro. But Piro - backed up by a team of FBI agents and crack CIA analysts - knew Saddam’s history too well. Where there were gaps, Piro was able to parry with the imprisoned leader to get credible answers. “High Value Detainee-1” was soon blabbing so freely it was hard for him to...
Outside the Beltway (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
James Gordon Meek has a very interesting two-part story on how FBI Special Agent George Piro successfully interrogated Saddam Hussein. Shockingly, it does not involve waterboarding, stress positions, sleep deprivation, nudity, or German shephards. The FBI prides itself on “rapport-based” interrogations that have a high success rate for yielding confessions from the likes of 1993 World [...]...
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