Support AlterNet
Do you value the information you're getting from AlterNet? Please show your support with a tax-deductible donation.
Feedback
Tell us how we're doing.
FBI Agent Contradicts Right Wing Narrative, Says Saddam Viewed Bin Laden as a Threat [VIDEO]
This video and summary originally appeared on Think Progress
Last night, CBS’ 60 Minutes aired an interview with FBI agent George Piro, the man who was charged with interrogating Saddam Hussein over the course of seven months. Piro reported that he asked Saddam whether he had any relationship to Osama bin Laden. Saddam responded by saying he was "wary" of the 9/11 mastermind and “didn’t want associate” with him. Moreover, Saddam viewed bin Laden "as a threat to him and his regime." Check out the video to your right for more.
Tagged as: iraq, terrorism, saddam hussein, bin laden, 60 minutes, piro
Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.
| Also in Video | |||
| The Tar Sands Suck The Canadian Tar Sands is the world's largest, and dirtiest, energy project. Totally lame. Post by Staff. December 2, 2009. |
Activists Strip Down to Their Birthday Suits to Protest Fur In Madrid, Spain. Post by Staff. December 1, 2009. |
Tony Kushner: Right-Wing Opposition to Recognizing Climate Change Comes "Entirely From Greed" In 1991 Angels in America took on the impact of humans on the environment. Now we face a more intractable instance of environmental decay. Post by Staff. November 30, 2009. |
|
EMAIL
PRINT
20 COMMENTS
PERMALINK