Proof: Saddam Had WMD’s
February 16, 2006
Paul Pillar, who was national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005, also said the Senate Intelligence Committee and a presidential commission overlooked evidence that the Bush administration politicized the intelligence process to support White House policy-makers.
“Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war,” Pillar said in an article written for the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs and posted on the magazine’s Web site Friday.
Yet, Saddam Husseins General has a book detailing Iraq’s WMD program, and and now his Son-In-Law is on tape admitting it. And to make matters even deeper. His top officers talk about how easy it would be to use a WMD to kill thousands in Washington DC.
In just recovered video of inner office meeting with Saddaam Hussein top officers you can hear:
Saddam Hussein told aides in the mid-1990s that he warned the United States it could be hit by a terrorist attack, ABC News reported Wednesday, citing 12 hours of tapes the network obtained of the former Iraqi dictator’s talks with his Cabinet.
One of Saddam’s son-in-laws also explained how Iraq hid its biological weapons programs from U.N. inspectors, according to the tapes from August 1995.
The coming terrorist attack Saddam predicted could involve weapons of mass destruction.
“Terrorism is coming. I told the Americans,” Saddam is heard saying, adding he “told the British as well.”
“In the future, what would prevent a booby-trapped car causing a nuclear explosion in Washington or a germ or a chemical one?” Saddam said.
But he insisted Iraq would never launch such an attack. “This story is coming, but not from Iraq,” he said.
Hussein Kamel, a son-in-law of Saddam’s, who was then in charge of Iraq’s efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction, explained how Iraq held back information from the U.N. inspectors.
“We did not reveal all that we have,” he said. “We did not reveal the volume of chemical weapons we had produced.”
Kamel said Iraq had not revealed “the type of weapons, not the volume of the materials we imported.”
Kamel defected to Jordan shortly after the tapes were recorded, and Iraq was forced to admit it had concealed its biological weapons program. Kamel returned to Iraq in February 1996 and was killed by security forces.
Charles Duelfer, who led the official U.S. search for weapons of mass destruction after the first Gulf War, told ABC News the tapes show extensive deception but don’t prove that weapons were still hidden in Iraq at the time of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
As Sadaam’s General Sada points out in his book, the weapons were moved to Syria by plane when it was immenent that the U.S. would invade.
“What they do is support the conclusion in the report which we made in the last couple of years, that the regime had the intention of building and rebuilding weapons of mass destruction, when circumstances permitted,” he said.
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