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FBI: Saddam Feared Iran More Than U.S. Attack

After his capture, Saddam Hussein told the FBI that he falsely allowed the world to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction because he feared revealing his weakness to Iran, who he considered a bigger threat than the US, according to FBI interview notes made public. Saddam also dismissed Osama bin Laden as a "zealot," said he had never personally met the al-Qaeda leader and that the Iraqi government didn't cooperate with the terrorist group against the US, according to the notes made public by the National Security Archive, a non-governmental research institute.
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FBI Notes: Saddam Feared Iran More Than U.S. Attack
The farm where Saddam Hussein hid from U.S. forces before he was captured in December 2003 was familiar ground for the Iraqi dictator: It was the same place, he told an FBI agent, where he sought refuge 44 years earlier after taking part in a failed attempt to kill Iraq's president. Saddam also told the U.S. official that he had used telephones only twice in the last 14 years, and moved his locations daily. With troops closing in on him, Saddam returned to the farm outside Tikrit where he hid in 1959 after joining in a failed bid to assassinate Iraqi president Abd Al-Karim Qassem.

Posted by Editor at July 3, 2009 11:32 AM