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FBI agent: Saddam pretended to have WMD Raw
Story Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein didn't think the United States would stage such a large-scale occupation of Iraq like it ended up doing in 2002, says FBI agent George Piro. Piro was assigned to interrogate Hussein after his capture, and did so for almost seven months. According to Piro, Hussein underestimated President Bush and his intentions, thinking that a planned attack would be like 1998's Operation Desert Fox, which he easily evaded. According to Piro, Hussein had no "weapons of mass destruction," but wanted his public image to be that of strength, so he let the Bush Administration continue saying he had them. "For him, it was critical that he was seen as still the strong, defiant Saddam," says Piro, partly to keep Iran from invading Iraq again. Piro also says that Hussein had the capability and the desire to restart his WMD program, including chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
"What he wanted to really illustrate is…how he was able to outsmart us." The interview is scheduled to air on CBS' 60 Minutes on Sunday, January 27th, 2008, at 7pm Eastern. A video preview is also available.
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