Friday, February 17. 2006
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Top-secret tapes of Saddam Hussein capture him talking with his son-in-law in the 1990s about how well Iraq hid its weapons of mass destruction.
The tapes also reveal Saddam's top deputy telling him how easy it would be to create a biological weapon, "drop it into a water tower and kill 100,000."
The Iraqi dictator is also heard predicting a terrorist attack on the United States with weapons of mass destruction - but says Iraq won't be responsible.
The disclosures, aired by ABC News, come from 12 hours of tape recordings of Saddam and his top aides provided by a former member of a UN inspection team.
In one of the tapes, Hussein Kamel, in charge of Iraq's heavily guarded WMD effort, is heard boasting how he misled UN weapons inspectors about the size of Iraq's biological weapons program.
"We did not reveal all that we have," Kamel said in the 1995 tape.
See also:
Strong Evidence There Were WMDs in Iraq
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