- JEDDAH -- 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.
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- "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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- "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 nor read the Qur'an, it added.
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- http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=37091&d=27&m=12&y=2003
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