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Sparks from the Anvil (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The FBI released the transcripts of Saddam's interrogation under the Freedom of Information Act. But there's nothing new that the mainstream media's been reporting on that hadn't already been printed in Ron Kessler's The Terrorist Watch, and the 60 Minutes interview with George Piro over a year ago, which read verbatim what was already covered in Kessler's book. What strikes me as appalling, is how...
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The Dignified Rant (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
Our Left often excuses the actions of thug states--especially theri efforts to get nukes--by arguing that these regimes fear we'll invade them. So who can blame them for going nuclear? So what did Saddam say about the threat of America on the eve of war in 2003? "Hussein believed that Iraq could not appear weak to its enemies, especially Iran," FBI special agent George Piro wrote on notes...
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Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
Intelligence and Meglomania Saddam Hussein's FBI Interviews http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick07062009.html By PATRICK COCKBURN Saddam Hussein was questioned by the FBI during 20 formal interviews and at least five "casual conversations" over a four-month period from February to May 2004 after his capture by US troops in December 2003. Transcripts of the interviews were released last week...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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,...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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 [...]
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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...
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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...
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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...
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