Saddam Giving Info on Weapons and Funds-Official
Saddam Hussein has given his U.S. captors information on hidden weapons and as much as $40 billion he may have seized while he was Iraq’s president, an Iraqi official was quoted as saying on Monday.
“Saddam has confessed the names of people he told to keep the money and he gave names of those who have information on equipment and weapons warehouses,” Iyad Allawi, a member of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, told the London-based Asharq al-Awsat daily.
“The Governing Council is searching for $40 billion worth of funds seized by Saddam when he was in power and which has been deposited in Switzerland, Japan, Germany and other countries under the names of fictitious companies,” Allawi said.
He said the council had asked international legal companies to track the money.
Hey, I thought it was a fact that nearly a half-million Iraqi kids have died already in the last decade, thanks to our sanctions which have starved them and our bombs which have killed them. And here it was Saddam, the whole time – - hoarding billions while his people starved and suffered.
Of course, the left would say that Saddam wouldn’t have had to hoard if we hadn’t have threatened invasion.
Well, I guess this explains why the Left is more concerned over the issue of Saddam being treated humanely and getting a fair trial than the illegal funds and murders he has committed over the years.
It makes me wonder if he might have been funded by those liberals…
Not funded, just sharing a political ideal.
Well, this deal certainly makes for strange bedfellows, that’s for sure…