Saddam Singing Like a Canary About Cash and Weapons

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2003/12/29/103102.shtml
Monday, Dec. 29, 2003 9:57 a.m. EST
Saddam Singing Like a Canary About Cash and Weapons

Captured Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is reportedly singing like a canary to U.S. interrogators, admitting that during his brutal tenure he seized as much as $40 billion from Iraq's treasury and divulging information on his regime's hidden weapons stockpiles.

"Saddam has confessed the names of people he told to keep the money and he gave names of those who have information on equipment and weapons warehouses," Iyad Allawi, a member of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, told the London-based Asharq al-Awsat daily.

It's not clear whether the talkative tyrant has revealed the location of any weapons of mass destruction. Last July, however, U.S. forces uncovered a substantial part of the Iraqi air force buried beneath the sands of Baghdad.

In quotes picked up by the Reuters news service, Allawi said Saddam's secret slush fund had been deposited under the names of fictitious companies in different countries around the world, including Switzerland, Japan and Germany.

The ex-Iraqi dictator is now being grilled on his connections to global terrorist organizations, focusing on questions about cash he may have funneled to groups like al-Qaeda and Hamas.
 
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Captured Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is reportedly singing like a canary to U.S. interrogators, admitting that during his brutal tenure he seized as much as $40 billion from Iraq's treasury and divulging information on his regime's hidden weapons stockpiles.
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no wonder the people were dying of starvation and of health problems.

and to think that some people were blaming it on the sanctions!!
 
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Re: Re: Saddam Singing Like a Canary About Cash and Weapons

Mcleanhatch said:
no wonder the people were dying of starvation and of health problems.

and to think that some people were blaming it on the sanctions!!
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woow what a great find ... the start of any rightwing rhetoric.
 
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Saddam Threatens to Expose US

Arab News

JEDDAH, 27 December 2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, now being grilled by American investigators, has reportedly warned US authorities that he will expose Washington's "political games" and its behind-the-scene role in the occupation of Kuwait.

"Saddam threatened that if they continue to pressure him he will reveal startling facts - about America's political games with his country - that would shock the whole world," Al-Watan Arabic daily quoted a high-level European source as saying.

The source said Saddam had stopped answering the investigators' questions and asked them to "give him enough time to clear his mind." He did not elaborate further, the source added.

The source confirmed that the investigators approached Saddam with a list of Iraqi scientists involved in the development of weapons of mass destruction but Saddam told them that they were developing nuclear and chemical technology for civilian purposes, the paper said.

According to the European source close to US investigators, Saddam also said that he would ask the International Court of Justice in The Hague to try the United States for its crimes against the Iraqi people for allegedly using internationally prohibited weapons against the Iraqis during the last two wars against his country.

"If the Americans want to try me in a court of law, they should also try high-ranking international officials," the source quoted the former Iraqi dictator as saying. Saddam has insisted that his statements are recorded verbatim, the paper said. The source said Saddam neither prayed not read the Qur'an, it added.
 
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Saddam Threatens to Expose US

Arab News

JEDDAH, 27 December 2003 -

high-level European source as saying.

The source said

the source added.

The source confirmed

According to the European source

the source quoted the former Iraqi dictator as saying.

The source said Saddam neither prayed not read the Qur'an, it added.
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wow that SOURCE is a great source.
 
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these liberals/commies are always posting unnamed sources. which leads me to believe that they are talking out of their ass.

i mean seriously how in the hell is a "european source" (unnamed at that) going to have any knowledge of what is going behind closed doors with regards to what Sadam is saying. last time i heard the only people in the room are the Iraqi Governing Council and US Authorities
 
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lol^^^^You shouldn't talk after posting shit from NEWSMAX! Where the fuck is the evidence in your article? Hmmm, there is none.:dead:
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Iyad Allawi, a member of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, told the London-based Asharq al-Awsat daily.

In quotes picked up by the Reuters news service, Allawi said
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Report: Saddam Says He Siphoned Billions
The Associated Press
Monday, December 29, 2003; 9:09 AM

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Saddam Hussein has acknowledged depositing billions of dollars abroad before his ouster and has given interrogators the names of people who know where the money is, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council said in remarks published Monday.

The U.S.-appointed council estimates that the Iraqi dictator seized $40 billion while in power and is now searching for that amount deposited in Switzerland, Japan, Germany and other countries, Iyad Allawi told the London-based Arab newspapers Al-Hayat and Asharq al-Awsat.

"Saddam has started to give information on money that has been looted from Iraq and deposited abroad," Allawi told Asharq al-Awsat. "Investigation is now concentrated on his relationship with terrorist organizations and on the money paid to elements outside Iraq."

Allawi said Saddam, who has been questioned by American interrogators since his capture this month, gave names of people who know where the money is deposited and also know the location of arms and ammunition depots used by insurgents in attacks against the coalition forces and the Governing Council.

In similar remarks to Al-Hayat, Allawi said Saddam had confessed to "important matters," a reference to the smuggling of billions of dollars abroad.

"We have asked international legal and specialized companies to follow up the money he (Saddam) has deposited in Switzerland, Germany, Japan and other countries which is estimated at around $40 billion under fictitious companies' names," Allawi told Al-Hayat.

Allawi spoke to Lebanese journalists during a private visit to Beirut last week.

In Baghdad, Ahmed al-Bayak, anouther member of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, said he was informed by council members that Saddam had started to talk about names of people inside Iraq who were carrying out attacks against U.S. forces.

"But nothing about funds," said al-Bayak.

Entifadh Qanbar, spokesman for Ahmed Chalabi, another council member, said Chalabi's political party, the Iraqi National Congress, had its own information about Saddam's funds before his arrest.

"We don't have new information on funds, and if we did we won't be talking about this," he said.
 
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Saddam Said to Be Giving Info on Weapons, Funds
Reuters
Monday, December 29, 2003; 2:55 PM

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein has given his U.S. captors information on hidden weapons and as much as $40 billion he may have seized while he was Iraq's president, an Iraqi official was quoted as saying on Monday.

"Saddam has confessed the names of people he told to keep the money and he gave names of those who have information on equipment and weapons warehouses," Iyad Allawi, a member of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, told the London-based Asharq al-Awsat daily.

"The Governing Council is searching for $40 billion worth of funds seized by Saddam when he was in power and which has been deposited in Switzerland, Japan, Germany and other countries under the names of fictitious companies," Allawi said.

He said the council had asked international legal companies to track the money.

Earlier this month, Iraq's finance minister said his country was preparing to demand some $3 billion in cash held in Syrian state banks under deals struck with Saddam's government.

A Syrian official, however, said the amount was in the millions, not billions and Syria's ambassador to the United Nations, Fayssal Mekdad, said on Monday his country would cooperate in helping Iraq recover any funds.

"Whatever the amount is, Syria is faithfully implementing Security Council resolutions in this regard," he said.

"We had good discussions with both the United States (and) the Iraqi authorities. I am sure Syria will be working in good faith in the correct direction on the return of these funds."

In the newspaper interview, Allawi said interrogators were now focusing on whether Saddam -- arrested by U.S. forces this month and held at an undisclosed site -- had any links to militant groups.

"Interrogators are now focusing on the relationship between him and terrorist organizations and on funds paid to groups outside Iraq," Allawi told the newspaper.

It is not clear whether Saddam was behind ambushes that have killed at least 211 U.S. soldiers since Washington declared major combat over on May 1.

The capture of Saddam has not ended guerrilla activity in Iraq, which U.S. officials believe involves non-Iraqi militant Islamist guerrillas and Saddam loyalists.
 
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HOO WEE! Its only a matter of time before we find all the WMD's that are capable of reaching the US to justify this war. I bet all you liberal morons will feel dumb then! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! KOREA IS NEXT BABY! LETS NUKE THEM GOOKS!!!!!!! KILL EM ALL!! HOO WEE!
 
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HOO WEE! Its only a matter of time before we find all the WMD's that are capable of reaching the US to justify this war. I bet all you liberal morons will feel dumb then! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! KOREA IS NEXT BABY! LETS NUKE THEM GOOKS!!!!!!! KILL EM ALL!! HOO WEE!
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oh yea.. ur real smart.. dumb fuck
 
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Newsmax is a very reputable site. Here is a good excerpt.

The commie liberal anti-americans (who don't even watch scarborough country) used their liberal democratic liberalness today in congress to pass a liberal left-wing democratic bill.
 
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