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The CIA analyst who interrogated Saddam Hussein has told Al Arabiya he had no doubt the person captured and whom he later grilled, was the former Iraqi leader. “I was certain beyond a shadow of a doubt, it was him when I first set eyes on him”, John Nixon told Al Arabiya. Nixon was the agent chosen to interrogate Saddam when the ex-Iraqi president was captured by American troops in December 2003. “My prime responsibility was to amass as much as possible intelligence about Saddam Hussein. When he was captured by the US forces, I had prepared a list of...

[full title]:The Saddam interrogation: Ten years after the tyrant's execution, the CIA agent who grilled him reveals the shattering truth... that everything the US thought it knew was WRONG CIA analyst John Nixon grilled the ruthless dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein In the course of interrogations, Saddam 'turned our assumptions upside down' In his 2010 memoir, Bush wrote: ‘I decided I would not criticise the hardworking patriots of the CIA for the faulty intelligence on Iraq.’ But that is exactly what he did. He blamed the agency for everything that went wrong and called its analysis ‘guesswork’ while hearing only...

One day after notorious gang leader and vicious killer Tookie Williams was executed in California -- despite weeks of very vocal, vociferous, protests by Hollywood stars, political and civil rights leaders -- another man was executed in Mississippi. John B. Nixon, Sr. was 77 years old when he was executed December 14, 2005. He was the oldest man to be executed since the death penalty was reestablished in 1976 and the oldest to be executed since 1916. Unlike the Tookie Williams execution, there were no protests about this execution. There were no claims about discrimination when imposing the death penalty...

PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — A 77-year-old convicted hitman was executed Wednesday, becoming the oldest person in the nation put death since capital punishment was reinstated nearly three decades ago. John B. Nixon Sr. still claimed innocence as he was strapped to the death chamber gurney, and blamed one of his sons for the 1985 murder of a Mississippi woman.

PARCHMAN, Miss. - Hired killer John B. Nixon Sr. was put to death Wednesday by lethal injection, but not before he claimed one of his sons carried out the 1985 murder of a Mississippi woman. "I did not kill Virginia Tucker," Nixon said from the death chamber gurney. "I know within my heart, and it hurts to acknowledge, that it was a son of mine and a Spanish friend and another man from Jackson." Nixon, 77, did not identify which of his sons he was blaming, but said he believed his oldest son, John B. Nixon Jr., did not know...

Prison Officials Say Nixon Calm As Execution Approaches POSTED: 7:20 am CST December 14, 2005 UPDATED: 5:10 pm CST December 14, 2005 PARCHMAN, Miss. -- Convicted hitman John B. Nixon, Sr., spent the final hours before his scheduled execution Wednesday visiting with relatives, and prison officials described him as calm and tranquil. The 77-year-old man ate a breakfast of two eggs, two sausage patties, two pieces of white bread, coffee and milk. Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps said Nixon declined to eat lunch, saving room for a last meal. The execution -- Mississippi's first since 2002 -- was set for 6...

Statement of Governor Haley Barbour on Clemency Request of John B. Nixon, Sr: On Saturday, I made the decision to deny the request for clemency made by and on behalf of John B. Nixon, Sr., who was convicted in 1986 in Rankin County Circuit Court of a heinous murder. I made this decision after a careful review of the records provided on his behalf. I will not presume to substitute my judgment for the judgment of the Rankin County Circuit Court and the jury, which heard the evidence in the case, returned a guilty verdict and set the punishment; nor...

JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi death row inmate John B. Nixon Sr. has asked Gov. Haley Barbour to spare his life. Nixon, 77, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. While Nixon's attorneys still have some hope that the U.S. Supreme Court might yet stay the execution, "we recognize that clemency is probably John's best hope for avoiding execution," attorneys David W. Clark of Jackson and Brian F. Toohey of Cleveland said in a clemency request hand-delivered to Barbour's office on Thursday. An appeal is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. It seeks to delay...