AP Published: July 02, 2009, 17:24
Washington: After his capture, Saddam Hussain told the FBI that he falsely allowed the world to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction because he feared revealing his weakness to Iran, which he considered a bigger threat than the United States.
Saddam also dismissed Osama Bin Laden as a “zealot,” and said he had never personally met the Al Qaida leader and that the Iraqi government did not cooperate with the terrorist group against the US, according to FBI interview notes made public by the National Security Archive, a non-governmental research institute.
The institute obtained the FBI summaries through a Freedom of Information Act request and posted them on its website on Wednesday.
The former Iraqi leader was interviewed by the FBI after he was captured in December 2003, nine months after the US and its allies invaded Iraq.
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