Posted on 12/26/2003 7:52:12 PM PST by PeaceCorpsGuy
Saddam Threatens to Expose US --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Friday, December 26 2003 @ 04:46 PM EST
Former Iraqi president threatens to expose the US government’s behind-the-scene role in the occupation of Kuwait "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 US for its crimes against the Iraqi people .."
By P.K. Abdul Ghafour
JEDDAH - 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 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 leader as saying. Saddam has insisted that his statements are recorded verbatim, the paper said.
Source: Arab News - www.arabnews.com
...and, in case I missed it, please remind me...the Arab News would know about these supposed threats by Saddam to our interrogators exactly how?
Show me the Money.
I wonder who Saddam would have try him, for his crimes against the Iraqi people.
Who is the "we"? Do you mean the U.S. or the Republican Party?
I think if we questioned him to death we'd be just fine.
Why? I get sick and tired of people saying we have to be concerned about cr@p that we don't have to be worried about. Why do we have a huge problem? Is someone going to fire us? Are they going to fly airplanes into buildings? Will they not like us?
Sorry, all of those things have happened. The whiners are allowed to kiss the fundament of all the winners. Sorry if that seems to negatively affect the arab population.
/john
/john
...surely couldn't be anything like propganda could it?
No...the "Arab World" (note how their modern building codes withstood yesterday's earthquake...) has the problem; they're gonna have to gulp, and realize that they're 'third world', with no improvement of their lot in the foreseeable future.
It's blink time for the hairy people.
Why do think that the word of a proven liar is a 'huge problem' for the United States?
/john
If you think that Saddam's death indicates he speaks the truth, no matter where he is, then I think you have not paid close enough attention to Saddam over the years.
You know...this is the "mother of all wars" guy. This is the guy who said the American Army would commit suicide when it reached Baghdad. This is the guy who said he would defend his country to his death...then he cowered in a dirt hole.
Those who would believe Saddam already do.
Finally, note that this item comes from a Gulf area publication, quoting an unnamed European "close" to U.S. investigators.
Can't you just picture it? An American CIA interrogator comes out to the water cooler at what is probably one of the tightest security areas in the world and says to some European "Whew that Saddam is something, he says he's going to blow this deal if we don't ease off!"
Look, we used Saddam...so what? He went rogue on us (meaning he went head-on against our interests) and invaded another country that was an ally of ours and we kicked his backside and then he agreed to very specific provisions with us to stop the fighting...he lost.
Then he violated those provisions over and over again. We finally got tired of it and have a President who understands our foriegn policy cannot be flaunted and walked on in that manner, and in conjunction with several other reasons, we went in there and finished the job.
Saddam is toast...his reasons are toast...and his own people will make that very clear IMHO at his trial, conviction and sentencing because they are going to be the ones to do him in.
You used a variant of 'truth' and Saddam in the same sentence. 15 yards for general cluelessness.
We're talking about a guy that couldn't take a bullet after his sons had been killed and (honorably) buried by the enemy.
/john
From our honest friends? Why I am shocked that you would think such a thing.
The phrase, "made up out of whole cloth" comes to mind every time I read this stuff
The line between fact and fiction is very blurry and getting blurrier
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