Saddam: ‘I Lied About WMD In Fear Of Iran’

Posted by davidagillespie on July 4, 2009

Saddam Hussein allowed the world to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction because he feared revealing his weakness to Iran, it has emerged.

The former dictator made the revelations in a series of interviews with the FBI during his incarceration before he was hanged in 2006.Hussein also denied any connection to Osama bin Laden and described him as a “zealot”, insisting he had personally never met the al Qaeda leader.

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