In Video, Hussein Uses Slingshots and Bows to Rally Iraqis for War

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In Video, Hussein Uses Slingshots and Bows to Rally Iraqis for War

Saddam Hussein shooting an arrow with a crossbow in a video showing him and Iraqi military officers demonstrating low-tech weapons.

By SCOTT SHANE
Published: November 24, 2006

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 — As the world worried about Saddam Hussein’s quest for nuclear and biological weapons, he took time out to discuss with his top advisers the merits of a decidedly more primitive arsenal: slingshots, Molotov cocktails and crossbows.

In a previously undisclosed video, apparently shot in the months before the American-led invasion in 2003, Mr. Hussein, the Iraqi dictator, beams as military officers display and demonstrate low-tech weapons spread on a table in a ceremonial room. Whether the episode shows genuine preparation for an insurgency or was merely a bizarre propaganda exercise is unclear.

In the video, Mr. Hussein, wearing a double-breasted gray suit, aims a slingshot, shoots an arrow at a door using a crossbow (as aides scamper out of the way) and swings a mock gasoline bomb over his head with a rope. He urges his aides to get such weapons into the hands of Iraqis.

“Let’s use all the methods we can,” he tells his generals. “These methods can be made at home.”

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[Sensitivity]

1. I missed the nuclear-powered drone with germ-warfare micro missiles. What's up?

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[ProSense]

2. Bush and Rumfeld will go down in history as the first

to use the world's best trained and equipped fighting force to depose a dictator whose military might included slingshots!