252. Saddam and secret deal (9/4)
252. Saddam and secret deal (9/4)
In April, a news in Internet said American authorities arranged a meeting of the former Iraqi dictator with his wife.
Quote, "The outcome of their meeting turned out to be quite scandalous. Sajina claims that the person she encountered was not her husband, but his double."
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=711
Then I learned the visiting was requested by Russians.
Re: "Mrs Saddam says Saddam is not Saddam
Joe Vialls | June 18 2004
After the Russians applied enormous diplomatic pressure, America was finally obliged to allow Sajida Heiralla Tuffah access to her husband in Qatar.....
Sajida entered the prison, emerging only moments later pink with rage and shouting, "This is not my husband but his double. Where is my husband? Take me to my husband".
American officials rushed forward to shield Mrs Saddam from perplexed Russian observers, trying to insist that Saddam had changed a lot while in custody and she probably didn't recognise him. .... "You think I do not know my husband?" Sajida shouted furiously, "I was married to the man for more than twenty-five years!" Then she stormed off, never to return.
This remarkable confrontation was reported by Pravda and four other newspapers in the east between 13 and 17 April, but the New York Times and others made damn sure you didn't read or hear about it in the west. After all, this was an integral part of Wall Street's psychological campaign to convince the public that America was "Winning the War", so please to send more sons and body bags to Iraq."
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/june2004/061804saddamnotsaddam.htm
When I first saw this news, my first thought was that Saddam was dead already. The puzzle was why US arrange such a meeting.
Why it's not German or French but Russian had such a request? Why Russian was so interested to know the true identity of "Saddam in custody"? Why US authority gave Russian such a privilege that they particularly arranged a meeting of Saddam and his wife for the Russian observers?
Putin's announcement on 6/19/04 that Iraq had planned to attack US resolved all these puzzle.
US team for the secret deal request Russia President Putin to deliver the information to public personally. So the framed case would look credible. (Or the so said "terror attack" wronged Saddam as mastermind.) Russian President cared about his own reputation if the lie would be revealed. To assure Russian it would be safe to tell a lie, US arranged such a meeting to prove Saddam was dead already. The "Saddam" in custody was only a double. Then we see Russian observers watching Saddam's wife visited her husband in April. Condoleezza Rice went to Moscow in May (to confirm the deal) Then D.O.J. announced the "summer terror attack" in later May. Though the June "terror attack" soured, Putin still delivered the news that Iraq had planned to attack US.
As a matter of fact, Saddam had been US ally in 1980's. US had supported Iraq with bio-chemical material in "Iran-Iraq war." Saddam must have known many secret deal between Iraq and US. They won't keep him alive.