Hussein era secrets may lie buried

[Algorem]

Many fear his death ends hope of learning more about his crimes.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-secrets1jan01,1,3729033.story?coll=la-news-a_section

By Solomon Moore, Times Staff Writer
January 1, 2007


BAGHDAD —

...Researchers still wonder how much support Hussein received from Western governments and corporations for his weapons programs and gas attacks on Iraqi civilians...

...Radhi said he was also working with U.S. advisors to find money Hussein paid to companies in advance of services and goods being delivered...

"I know for a fact that in the 1990s, the Clinton State Department ordered lawyers to go through their documents to make sure that there was nothing that would create credibility problems for the U.S. in any future tribunals for Saddam Hussein," said Hiltermann, who interviewed an attorney who worked on the internal review. Hiltermann said he was unaware of the conclusion of the review...

Other documents show that Hussein met with U.S. officials just before he invaded Kuwait in 1990, leading some to speculate that American diplomats led him to believe his military move against the neighboring state would be tolerated by the George H.W. Bush administration...

[Deep13]

1. Hussein is his "first" name.

It's the Saddam era, not the Hussein era.

[rodeodance]

2. dead men cannot talk.

[tom_paine]

3. You got it. Saddam had to be planted before he could finger Busheviks

like Rumsfeld, who shook his hand in 1983 and sold him the chemicals to murder children with at Hajlabah, I believe.

like Cheney, who did mucho business with the dictator in 1998.

Saddam was a Bushevik all the way, like Noriega, way back when the CIA helped the Baathists regain power.

Bush-Saddam, like Bush-Bin Laden, was and is an intramural squabble.

Saddam now played the bunny, and got whacked like he'd done to so many others. It had to move fast because between the time that Saddam was released and his execution was the chance that soem of his secrets would leak out to someone.

Mission accomplished. The bunny was whacked.