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February 16, 2006
Saddam Tape Predicts A Terror Strike
The tapes recorded in the 1990s, Saddam predicts a terror strike.
HERE is some information from ABC news.....of course they have to put their slant on it if they didn't they would be too much for America and not for their friends the terrorists!
The 12 hours of recordings comes when Saddam predicts — during a meeting in the mid 1990s — a terrorist attack on the United States. "Terrorism is coming. I told the Americans a long time before August 2 and told the British as well … that in the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction." Saddam goes on to say such attacks would be difficult to stop. "In the future, what would prevent a booby-trapped car causing a nuclear explosion in Washington or a germ or a chemical one?"
But he adds that Iraq would never do such a thing. "This is coming, this story is coming but not from Iraq."Also at the meeting was Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, who said Iraq was being wrongly accused of terrorism. "Sir, the biological is very easy to make. It's so simple that any biologist can make a bottle of germs and drop it into a water tower and kill 100,000. This is not done by a state. No need to accuse a state. An individual can do it."
The tapes also reveal Iraq 's persistent efforts to hide information about weapons of mass destruction programs from U.N. inspectors well into the 1990s. In one pivotal tape-recorded meeting, which occurred in late April or May of 1995, Saddam and his senior aides discuss the fact that U.N. inspectors had uncovered evidence of Iraq's biological weapons program—a program whose existence Iraq had previously denied.
At one point Hussein Kamel, Saddam's son-in-law and the man who was in charge of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction efforts can be heard on the tapes, speaking openly about hiding information from the U.N.
"We did not reveal all that we have," Kamel says in the meeting. "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."
Shortly after this meeting, in August 1995, Hussein Kamel defected to Jordan, and Iraq was forced to admit that it had concealed its biological weapons program. (Kamel returned to Iraq in February 1996 and was killed in a firefight with Iraqi security forces.)
Posted by Wild Thing at February 16, 2006 02:07 AM
Comments
I kinda wonder what might have been on board the planes of the Iraqi air farce when it fled en masse to Iran.
Posted by: TomR at February 16, 2006 07:20 AM
Hi Tom, yes and also what gets me too is all the time (months and months) that Blix would go back and forth and leave Saddam tons of time to move things, to get rid of stuff. We let Saddam control the inspections just like he has been making his trial a joke.
Thank you for commenting.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 16, 2006 09:23 AM
