FBI Notes on Hussein Released to the Public

In FBI notes release to the public, the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein feared Iran rather than the United States. The executed Iraqi leader went into such details as: lying about holding Weapons of Mass Destruction to not show his weakness to Iran, if having such weapons he would have definitely used them against the United States' preemptive invasion and declaring Usama Bin Laden as a zealot and had never met the al-Qaeda leader. The National Security Archive obtained the FBI summaries in a request made through the Freedom of Information Act. Also the New York Daily News reported about the summaries one week ago. American forces captured Saddam Hussein in December of 2003 on a farm where he hid in 1959 when he participated in the failed assassination attempt of Iraq’s Prime Minister Abdul al-Karim Qasim. During the interview, he cleared up many false allegations. For one, he cited that he was never in the outskirts of Baghdad during the March 19th bombings, which was an attempt to kill the Iraqi President. However, he did stay in Baghdad until April 11th when “it appeared that the city was about to fall.” One widely known assertion was that Mr. Hussein used body doubles in public to avoid detection but he had denied such claims, “This is movie magic, not reality.” In a series of interviews between February and June of 2004, Saddam met with Piro and denied of having such weapons that was the cause of the U.S.-led preemptive attack on Iraq, “By God, if I had such weapons, I would have used them in the fight against the United States.” Former President George W. Bush’s Administration and the House of Representatives authorized the invasion of Iraq for having such Weapons of Mass Destruction and that he could provide them to terrorists. Also to further the worldwide belief that he had weapons, Saddam refused United Nations weapons inspectors into the country. Saddam Hussein later took responsibility for ordering scud missiles against Israeli forces during the 1991 Gulf War and, just like how Usama Bin Laden blamed Israel and the United States for policies in the Arab world; he too incited such attacks for the same cause. It is a fact, however, that the United States’ CIA installed Saddam Hussein as President of Iraq. It is also a fact that the United States did provide Iraq with weapons during the Iraq-Iran war during the 1980s and so forth. Of course, the famous picture of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein in 1983 as a Special Envoy. More information click here. Saddam added, “The United States used the Sept. 11 terrorist attack as a justification to attack Iraq” and said, “The U.S. had lost sight of the cause of 9/11.”