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Iraq
Sammy sez he’ll expose the US
2003-12-27
This looks like pure unfiltered BS, but why not?
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.
Shock and be damned.
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.
Ran out of lies, I guess. He has to straighten out his stories...
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 Quran, it added.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#9  This sounds like the Firesign Theater's "Howl of the Wolf News"

.....Those were the headlines, now the rumours behind the news....
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2003-12-27 5:08:35 PM  

#8  RC#7: Arab paper citing another Arab paper quoting some Euro pretending to pass on something he heard 3rd or 4th hand passing through however many languages. This could have started with Saddam trying to rattle interrogators with a chicken-cross-road joke.
Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds)   2003-12-27 3:11:41 PM  

#7  Al-Watan Arabic daily quoted a high-level European source as saying.

So, an Arab paper quoted a European official. Neither of those sources are what I would call "reliable enough to report if the sun came up".
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2003-12-27 2:24:05 PM  

#6  Of course Sammy's a real muslim - he had the usual battlefield victories for Arab/muslim armies.... Hoo Ahh!
Posted by: Frank G   2003-12-27 1:54:48 PM  

#5  Go ahead,spill your guts.I would dearly love to know wich Americans aided and abetted your crimes.Don't forget to include a listing of the names of your French,German,Russian butt-buddies.
Posted by: raptor   2003-12-27 11:05:14 AM  

#4  This doesn't sound like anything more than the usual Arab inability to distinguish fantasy from reality, or truth from falsehood- like that story about how the Kurds really were the ones to capture Saddam, and they drugged him and left him in a hole for U.S. troops to stumble upon.

"Saddam has insisted that his statements are recorded verbatim, the paper said."

I don't think Saddam is in any position to be "insisting" on anything.
Posted by: Dave D.   2003-12-27 8:19:21 AM  

#3  The source said Saddam neither prayed not read the Qur’an so the Arab press can now spin Sammy isn't a real Muslim. Maybe true. After all, RoP.
Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds)   2003-12-27 1:18:17 AM  

#2  I think this guy means business. Everybody in the know should start shredding all documents that might be usefull.

I really mean it!

No really!

You don't believe me do you?



Posted by: Lucky   2003-12-27 12:52:24 AM  

#1  Sounds like howie dean might have just found his VP.
Posted by: 4thInfVet   2003-12-27 12:45:05 AM  

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