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In book, FBI agent says Saddam Hussein cried at last meeting
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/11/13/2007-11-13_in_book_fbi_agent_says_saddam_hussein_cr-2.html ^

Posted on 11/13/2007 4:47:41 PM PST by cool2007

WASHINGTON - After confessing to slaughtering 180,000 Kurds and plotting to build a doomsday nuke, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was so upset when his FBI interrogator left for home that he cried like a baby.

FBI Special Agent George Piro whipped out two Cuban Cohibas - Saddam's favorite cigar - and they smoked on the patio behind his cell at Baghdad's airport.

"When we were saying bye, he started to tear up," Piro recalled in the new book "The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack."

The self-effacing G-man was hardly surprised - he had spent nearly a year carefully becoming Saddam's best friend in a successful ploy to extract confessions from the notorious brute.

Piro's inside account of spending up to seven hours a day, every day, for eight months with Saddam is revealed in the new book by journalist Ronald Kessler.

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Until 9/11, Saddam thought UN sanctions would go away and he could make a nuclear bomb. His prewar weapons of mass destruction deceptions were a ruse to convince Iran - whom he feared - that he had an arsenal.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fbi; iraq; kessler; prewarintelligence; saddam
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1 posted on 11/13/2007 4:47:43 PM PST by cool2007
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To: cool2007
FBI Special Agent George Piro whipped out two Cuban Cohibas - Saddam's favorite cigar - and they smoked on the patio behind his cell at Baghdad's airport.

Wish I had a friend like that!

2 posted on 11/13/2007 4:52:44 PM PST by Eternal_Bear
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To: cool2007
Even mad brutal dictators need a friend :)

Why is this even news?

3 posted on 11/13/2007 4:53:07 PM PST by Popman
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To: cool2007

awwww,... he cried like a little baby.... did he wet his diaper too????


4 posted on 11/13/2007 4:54:12 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: cool2007
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5 posted on 11/13/2007 4:55:35 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: SandRat

6 posted on 11/13/2007 4:58:07 PM PST by Popman
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To: cool2007
Saddam never used body doubles - as was widely believed - because no one could "play" him, Piro quoted Saddam as saying.

Uhhh... I think it is pretty conclusive that he did, in fact, use doubles. IIRC he was spotted in multiple places at once from time to time. Perhaps on some level, Saddam was still "playing" this young agent.

8 posted on 11/13/2007 5:04:35 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: cool2007

It’s too soon after dinner to read this, it literally makes me sick to my stomach.


9 posted on 11/13/2007 5:04:51 PM PST by Melinda
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To: cool2007
spending up to seven hours a day, every day, for eight months with Saddam

Coming up next, on "World's Worst Jobs."

10 posted on 11/13/2007 5:08:56 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Hunter 2008)
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To: cool2007

So then let me see if I get it the Democrats led by Barrak Hussein Obama bleive that Saddam should not have been taken out and so they would allow him in power to game the U.N. Oil For Food Program, emboldened by UBL success on 911 and his hatred for Bush’s and building his inevitable Doomsday bomb that would certainly have killed millions of Americans was the right way to go....

Because obviously to them Everything George W. Bush did was wrong.


11 posted on 11/13/2007 5:09:43 PM PST by tomnbeverly (The sour sounds of liberal whining is sure to scare away any chance of success.)
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To: Eternal_Bear
After George Wills column on the mistakes leading up to this war, I read it today in astonishment at the intelligent failures. Thank God this group wasn’t advising about real nukes, real threats , we might have had , A real deal on our hand's. And now this.
We face rune leading up to the elections because of these mistakes. After years of building to become the majority, This group has squandered so much work, So much good will. In so short a time. I am disgusted
12 posted on 11/13/2007 5:13:31 PM PST by reefdiver (The sheriff of Nottingham collected taxes on behalf of the common good)
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After years of building to become the majority, This group has squandered so much work, So much good will. In so short a time. I am disgusted.

When a conservative talks of GWB and the folks he brought into government with him squandering opportunities I always wonder what that critic thinks of Dennis Hastert, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Arlen Specter, John Warner, Ted Stevens, etc., etc. I believe that anyone who attributes all of the Republican Party's many present failings to GWB alone (or even primarily) is simply not a serious observer of the current situation.

13 posted on 11/13/2007 5:29:01 PM PST by rogue yam
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To: cool2007

I recently smoked a ‘92 Cohiba Robustos that was so good, it nearly brought a tear to my eye. Maybe the cigar was just that good, LOL!


14 posted on 11/13/2007 5:32:32 PM PST by ETCM
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To: Popman

The...Bitch...Is...Dead!!! And that’s the bottom line!

(Pray for the souls of his many victims)


15 posted on 11/13/2007 5:33:08 PM PST by elcid1970
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To: rogue yam

I have a hard time finding in the Republican leadership people who know what they want to do, who know what their program is. They seem content to simply occupy office and try to get along with the Democrats.


16 posted on 11/13/2007 5:36:37 PM PST by popdonnelly (Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
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To: tomnbeverly
the Democrats led by Barrak Hussein Obama believe that Saddam should not have been taken out and so they would allow him in power to game the U.N. Oil For Food Program

I prefer to call it the Oil for Palaces program.

17 posted on 11/13/2007 5:42:13 PM PST by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got Seven? [NRA Life Member])
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To: Larry Lucido
Personal assistant to Hillary!
18 posted on 11/13/2007 5:45:32 PM PST by Luke Skyfreeper
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To: cool2007
....and plotting to build a doomsday nuke

"Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost ...if you keep it a secret."

19 posted on 11/13/2007 5:52:22 PM PST by Mr. Mojo (“Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.")
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To: rogue yam

Very well put... It seems that George W. Bush was dealt a terrible hand from the 2000 election to present but he has played it well. History will wonder how we ever got thru these horrid years at the begining of the 21st century and many will come to thank the conviction of this brave man.


20 posted on 11/13/2007 5:53:34 PM PST by tomnbeverly (The sour sounds of liberal whining is sure to scare away any chance of success.)
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