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01-25-2003, 10:56 PM
DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive Interview
January 21, 2003, 9:14 PM (GMT+02http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif0)
Saddam’s Sacked Bodyguard: I know where the weapons are…
Fired four months ago from Saddam Hussein’s inner bodyguard detail, Jassem Abdullah – not his real name, but one of several aliases - lives in Amman in fear of his life. He moves from place to place taking his secrets with him. As a member of the elite trusted group of five to six men sworn to defend the Iraqi ruler with their lives, he claims to know where Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction are hidden – and points to three sites.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly located and interviewed Jassem through intermediaries in a suite we rented at one of Amman’s most luxurious hotels. He was pale and tense
DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s intelligence experts who went over the transcript of the interview portrayed Jassem as a typical Middle East VIP bodyguard, essentially a simple man who, for the most part, told the truth. Content that our experts found to be inaccurate has been expunged. In brief, he claimed that Saddam had concealed his prohibited weapons in a tunnel complex under the main streets of Baghdad, the sand dunes in Ouja, near Tikrit – where they are stored in mobile bunkers that can be buried deeper by the flick of a remote control - and in the Hawala district of Tikrit.
In the first part of the interview, Jassem described two of Saddam’s main palaces and his incredibly elaborate personal security.
Saddam built an entire area under the city’s main streets (http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=247)
January 21, 2003, 9:14 PM (GMT+02http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif0)
Saddam’s Sacked Bodyguard: I know where the weapons are…
Fired four months ago from Saddam Hussein’s inner bodyguard detail, Jassem Abdullah – not his real name, but one of several aliases - lives in Amman in fear of his life. He moves from place to place taking his secrets with him. As a member of the elite trusted group of five to six men sworn to defend the Iraqi ruler with their lives, he claims to know where Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction are hidden – and points to three sites.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly located and interviewed Jassem through intermediaries in a suite we rented at one of Amman’s most luxurious hotels. He was pale and tense
DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s intelligence experts who went over the transcript of the interview portrayed Jassem as a typical Middle East VIP bodyguard, essentially a simple man who, for the most part, told the truth. Content that our experts found to be inaccurate has been expunged. In brief, he claimed that Saddam had concealed his prohibited weapons in a tunnel complex under the main streets of Baghdad, the sand dunes in Ouja, near Tikrit – where they are stored in mobile bunkers that can be buried deeper by the flick of a remote control - and in the Hawala district of Tikrit.
In the first part of the interview, Jassem described two of Saddam’s main palaces and his incredibly elaborate personal security.
Saddam built an entire area under the city’s main streets (http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=247)