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.
KMAN
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.
KMAN
