[lbo-talk] Saddam Threatens...To Talk

[Dwayne Monroe]

[The sourcing is ambiguous so this should be read with
the usual unquestioning belief counter-measures
activated. Still, an intriguing bit of news if at all
true.  DRM]

from -

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4&section=0&article=37091&d=27&m=12&y=2003

Saddam Threatens to Expose US
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News Staff

 

JEDDAH, 27 December 2003 — 

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, now being
grilled by American investigators, has reportedly
warned US authorities that he will expose Washington’s
“political games” and its behind-the-scene role in the
occupation of Kuwait.

“Saddam threatened that if they continue to pressure
him he will reveal startling facts — about America’s
political games with his country — that would shock
the whole world,” Al-Watan Arabic daily quoted a
high-level European source as saying.

The source said Saddam had stopped answering the
investigators’ questions and asked them to “give him
enough time to clear his mind.” He did not elaborate
further, the source added.

The source confirmed that the investigators approached
Saddam with a list of Iraqi scientists involved in the
development of weapons of mass destruction but Saddam
told them that they were developing nuclear and
chemical technology for civilian purposes, the paper
said.

According to the European source close to US
investigators, Saddam also said that he would ask the
International Court of Justice in The Hague to try the
United States for its crimes against the Iraqi people
for allegedly using internationally prohibited weapons
against the Iraqis during the last two wars against
his country.

“If the Americans want to try me in a court of law,
they should also try high-ranking international
officials,” the source quoted the former Iraqi
dictator as saying. Saddam has insisted that his
statements are recorded verbatim, the paper said. The
source said Saddam neither prayed not read the Qur’an,
it added.