Saddam Hussein spoke of terrorism and WMDs in tape-recorded meetings. ABC News has reported that 12 hours of tape-recorded meetings between Saddam and his top aides, recorded in the former dictator's palace in the mid-'90's, have been obtained from the U.N. On these tapes, Saddam can be heard predicting terrorist attacks on the United States, and his aides discuss the creation of biological weapons and hiding weapons of mass destruction from U.N. inspectors. Here is the story:
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Investigation/story?id=1616996
According to the translation, Saddam can be heard saying:
"Terrorism is coming. I told the Americans a long time before Aug. 2 and told the British as well … that in the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction...In the future, what would prevent a booby-trapped car causing a nuclear explosion in Washington or a germ or a chemical one?"
He added that Iraq would not do such a thing. Likely story! Russian intelligence told U.S. intelligence that Saddam was planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Elsewhere on these tapes, Saddam's son-in-law Hussein Kamel (who was killed by Iraqi security forces in 1996) can be heard saying that weapons of mass destruction were hidden from U.N. inspectors. He said:
"We did not reveal all that we have. Not the type of weapons, not the volume of the materials we imported, not the volume of the production we told them about, not the volume of use. None of this was correct."
Charles Duelfer, who led the official U.S. search for weapons of mass destruction after the war, points out that the tapes don't prove that WMDs were still hidden in Iraq at the time of the U.S. invasion. But he says this:
"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."
This, my friends, is why the United States could not allow circumstances to permit such things.
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Investigation/story?id=1616996
According to the translation, Saddam can be heard saying:
"Terrorism is coming. I told the Americans a long time before Aug. 2 and told the British as well … that in the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction...In the future, what would prevent a booby-trapped car causing a nuclear explosion in Washington or a germ or a chemical one?"
He added that Iraq would not do such a thing. Likely story! Russian intelligence told U.S. intelligence that Saddam was planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Elsewhere on these tapes, Saddam's son-in-law Hussein Kamel (who was killed by Iraqi security forces in 1996) can be heard saying that weapons of mass destruction were hidden from U.N. inspectors. He said:
"We did not reveal all that we have. Not the type of weapons, not the volume of the materials we imported, not the volume of the production we told them about, not the volume of use. None of this was correct."
Charles Duelfer, who led the official U.S. search for weapons of mass destruction after the war, points out that the tapes don't prove that WMDs were still hidden in Iraq at the time of the U.S. invasion. But he says this:
"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."
This, my friends, is why the United States could not allow circumstances to permit such things.
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