US records show Saddam was scared of Iran

Middle East News.Net
Thursday 2nd July, 2009

Declassified US security records have shown that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein told US federal agents, after his capture in 2004, that he wanted the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction so he would not appear weak to Iran.

The FBI conducted 25 interviews with Saddam Hussein after he was incarcerated.

The National Security Archive, has released the interviews, in which the former Iraqi president warns of Iran's "fanatic" leaders.

He also denounced Osama bin Laden as "a zealot" and said he had no interactions with al-Qaeda.

He freely admitted to his interrogators that he should have permitted the United Nations into the country to witness the destruction of Iraq's weapons stockpile in 1991.

Saddam was hanged in December of 2006.

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