(CBS) For a man who drew America into two wars and countless military engagements, we never knew what Saddam Hussein was thinking. But you are going to hear more than has ever been revealed before.
After his capture, Saddam met every day with one man, an American he knew as "Mr. George." George is FBI agent George Piro, who was the front man for a team of FBI and CIA analysts who were trying to answer some of the great mysteries of recent history. What happened to the weapons of mass destruction? Was Saddam in league with al Qaeda? Why did he choose war with the United States?
As correspondent Scott Pelley reports, Piro is the man who came to know Saddam better than anyone, as they sat face to face in a windowless room...
Monday, January 28, 2008
Interrogator Shares Saddam's Confessions, Tells 60 Minutes Former Iraqi Dictator Didn't Expect U.S. Invasion - CBS News
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan - Germany rebuffs IMF call for loser fiscal policies
FT.com / Home UK / UK - IMF head in shock fiscal warning
The intensifying credit crunch is so severe that lower interest rates alone will not be enough "to get out of the turmoil we are in", the managing director of the International Monetary Fund warned at the weekend.
In a dramatic volte face for an international body that only in the autumn called for "continued fiscal consolidation" in the US, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the new IMF head, gave a green light for the proposed US fiscal stimulus package and called for other countries to follow suit.
"I don't think we would get rid of the crisis with just monetary tools," he said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, adding "a new fiscal policy is probably today an accurate way to answer the crisis"...
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