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Notes from a June 28, 2004, "casual conversation between Saddam Hussein and an FBI interviewer. National Security Archive



"Hussein Pointed To Iranian Threat," The Washington Post headline reads. It writes that:

Saddam Hussein told an FBI interviewer before he was hanged (in December 2006) that he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he was worried about appearing weak to Iran, according to declassified accounts of the interviews released yesterday. The former Iraqi president also denounced Osama bin Laden as "a zealot" and said he had no dealings with al-Qaida.

To see for yourself what the former Iraqi dictator told the FBI in 2004, go to the website of the National Security Archive (an independent, non-governmental research institute). It used a Freedom of Information Act request to get the FBI to release summaries of 20 interrogations and five "casual conversations."