Saddam warned terrorists would hit US: tapes

[Poiuyt]

WASHINGTON (AFP) -
Saddam Hussein told aides he warned America before 1990 that terrorists would launch a huge strike on US soil, even raising the spectre of a nuclear attack, according to secret tapes obtained by ABC News.

The toppled Iraqi leader is heard on the recordings he made in his presidential office during the 1990s, ruling out any such strike by Iraq

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"In the future, what would prevent a booby trapped car causing a nuclear explosion in Washington or a germ or a chemical one?" he said, but added Iraq would not contemplate such an act.

"This is coming, this story is coming but not from Iraq."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060215/pl_afp/usattacksiraqsaddam

Am I reading this wrong or was Saddam trying to help the US?

[SPKrazy]

1. Neither, He Was Just Stating The Obvious

People in the Clinton Administration knew it as well.

Such as Richard Clarke.

The former head of the FBI Counterterrorism Unit who was killed in the 911 attacks

on and on and on

Yet Bush cut back on anti terrorism funding in the FBI wanting to focus instead on pornography, etc.

[Erika]

2. Yes, It appears Saddam was saying it would not come from Iraq

Evidently he also had visionary powers.