FOXNews.com - Top Stories - Saddam's Secrets Exposed by Aide
"WASHINGTON � Former Iraqi Vice Premier Tariq Aziz (search), who surrendered to U.S. authorities on May 24, has been providing considerable information about Saddam Hussein, officials familiar with his interrogation told Fox News.
Among the details provided by Aziz and the captured files:
� Saddam did not attack invading American and British forces because he believed that France and Russia would use the U.N. Security Council to stop the war.
� Ties were even stronger to two other nations: North Korea, which was in the process of selling Iraq a long-range No Dong missile, and Serbia, which provided Iraq with a sort of "lessons learned" template from its experience in dealing with the NATO-led air campaign over Kosovo.
� Iraq had no biological, chemical or nuclear weapons, according to Aziz, an assertion echoed by most other captured Iraqi leaders. But Saddam was insistent on developing long-range missiles despite the U.N. resolution barring him from doing so.
� The names of every Iraqi intelligence agent working abroad over the past few years. "We know [Saddam] had agents all over the world. We know who they are, and we're going to find all of them," one official told Fox News. "The Iraqis were meticulous record keepers."
Serb-Iraqi contacts were military-to-military, the officials said, and the Serbs gave many tips on enduring a prolonged air campaign, the officials told Fox News.
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"WASHINGTON � Former Iraqi Vice Premier Tariq Aziz (search), who surrendered to U.S. authorities on May 24, has been providing considerable information about Saddam Hussein, officials familiar with his interrogation told Fox News.
Among the details provided by Aziz and the captured files:
� Saddam did not attack invading American and British forces because he believed that France and Russia would use the U.N. Security Council to stop the war.
� Ties were even stronger to two other nations: North Korea, which was in the process of selling Iraq a long-range No Dong missile, and Serbia, which provided Iraq with a sort of "lessons learned" template from its experience in dealing with the NATO-led air campaign over Kosovo.
� Iraq had no biological, chemical or nuclear weapons, according to Aziz, an assertion echoed by most other captured Iraqi leaders. But Saddam was insistent on developing long-range missiles despite the U.N. resolution barring him from doing so.
� The names of every Iraqi intelligence agent working abroad over the past few years. "We know [Saddam] had agents all over the world. We know who they are, and we're going to find all of them," one official told Fox News. "The Iraqis were meticulous record keepers."
Serb-Iraqi contacts were military-to-military, the officials said, and the Serbs gave many tips on enduring a prolonged air campaign, the officials told Fox News.
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