Saddam fled the capital of Baghdad shortly before it fell in mid April, and disappeared he was finally captured on December 13 of that year by U.S. In March 2003, the United States led an invasion of Iraq that quickly toppled the government. In 1998, Saddam halted Iraqi cooperation with the United Nations Special Commission weapons inspections imposed on Iraq after the Gulf War, and kept U.N. Iraq's 1990 Invasion of Kuwait led to the 1991 Gulf War. In 1979, Saddam Hussein displaced General Bakr, and a little more than a year later, he ordered Iraqi troops to invade Iran, starting the Iran–Iraq War that would continue until 1988. General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, a relative of Saddam Hussein, became President, and Saddam became his deputy. The Ba'ath party returned to power after another successful coup in 1968. Following the Ba'athists overthrow of the prime minister in the February 1963 Iraqi coup d'état, and the counter-coup half a year later, Saddam was jailed in Iraq from 1964 to 1966. After participating in an unsuccessful 1959 assassination attempt on then Prime Minister of Iraq Abd al-Karim Qasim, Saddam became a fugitive, and eventually fled to Syria and then Egypt. In 1957, at the age of 20, Saddam Hussein joined the nascent Ba'ath Party, which was founded on a socialist form of Pan-Arabism.

Main articles: History of Iraq and Saddam Hussein In an official statement, a senior FBI official in Piro’s chain of command characterized the perceived success of their interrogation of Saddam Hussein as one of the agency's top accomplishments in its 100-year history. Piro discussed the interrogation process during an interview on the television news magazine 60 Minutes in January 2008. Bush, when in reality he was in a relatively low-level position at the time. government official with direct access to U.S. Saddam was led to believe that his interrogator was a high-ranking U.S. Saddam said he feared Al-Qaeda would have turned on him, and was quoted calling Osama bin Laden a 'zealot.' The face-to-face sessions were conducted by George Piro, an FBI supervisory special agent (SSA), one of only a few FBI agents who spoke Arabic fluently.

Bush administration officials in support of its policy of regime change in Iraq. The former leader reportedly maintained that he did not collaborate with Al-Qaeda, as had been suggested by George W. inspectors back into Iraq,' according to the reports. weapons inspections because he 'was more concerned about Iran discovering Iraq’s weaknesses and vulnerabilities than the repercussions of the United States for his refusal to allow U.N. Saddam denied repeated assertions by his interrogator of a current weapons of mass destruction capability in Iraq, yet had resisted U.N.

ĭetailed questioning covered the Iran–Iraq War and his use of chemical weapons against Iranians. Saddam, identified as 'High Value Detainee #1' in the documents, was the subject of 20 'formal interviews' followed by five 'casual conversations.' Questioning covered the span of Saddam's political career, from 2003 when he was found hiding in a ' spider hole' on a farm near his home town of Tikrit, back to his role in a failed 1959 coup attempt in Iraq, after which he had taken refuge in the very same place, one report noted. Freedom of Information Act request filed by the National Security Archive. Standard FBI FD-302 forms filed at the time were declassified and released in 2009 under a U.S. Beginning in February 2004, the interrogation program, codenamed Operation Desert Spider, was controlled by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents. The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein began shortly after his December 2003 capture, while the deposed President of Iraq was held at the United States Camp Cropper detention facility at Baghdad International Airport. Saddam Hussein shortly after capture, after being shaved to confirm his identity

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