Saddam – No WMDs in Iraq
Captured Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has told US interrogators his country never had weapons of mass destruction.
Time magazine quoted details of preliminary interviews with Saddam. An unnamed US official described the ousted leader as “defiant.”
Saddam rejected claims that Iraq had WMDs: “No, of course not. The US dreamed them up itself to have a reason to go to war with us.”
Saddam said UN inspectors were barred from entering Iraq’s facilities because he did not want them to go into presidential areas and “intrude on our privacy.”
Separately, the chairman of the Iraq Security Committee, Dr Ayad Allawi, yesterday said ‘evidence’ proved that “some weapons of mass destruction do exist in Iraq”.
Dr Allawi said: “A lot have been hidden and concealed; in the six months prior to the war a lot of documents had been concealed.”
And Peter Hain, Leader of the House of Commons, said Saddam’s capture would see more information released about where weapons of mass destruction were hidden.
“I would have thought his capture will help to uncover the weapons of mass destruction.
“The Iraq Survey Group will help to uncover it as will the fact that Iraq is liberated from Saddam’s evil grip, because even though he had gone into hiding and was on the run he still hung like an evil shadow over the whole of Iraq.
“Liberated from that it should be much easier to discover where they are.”
