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Saddam 'on drugs when he decided to invade Kuwait'
February 13, 2004
Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was probably high on drugs when he
decided
to invade Kuwait in 1990, a former chief of protocol said in a radio
interview
yesterday.
Issam Rashid Walid, whose book In Saddam's Shadow is due to be released in
French in the coming days, also told Europe 1 radio Saddam had amassed a
fortune of about $US35 billion ($44.5 billion) through various companies
he set
up, including many in the Brazilian car industry.
"Saddam was heavily into drugs. He began in 1959, with cannabis, and then
when
he seized power [in 1979], he used heroin at times. He decided to invade
Kuwait
because he was probably not in his normal state. He was on drugs and drugs
made
him lose his mind," said Walid.
Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990, just two years after the end of its
eight-year war with Iran.
An international coalition led by the United States pushed Iraq out of
Kuwait
in the 1991 Gulf War. A raft of international sanctions were then adopted
to
contain Iraq.
Walid, who lives in London, also recounted that Saddam ordered that one of
his
adversaries be devoured by a doberman pinscher.
Saddam became vice-president of Iraq in 1968 before taking over the
presidency
in 1979. He was deposed during the US-led invasion of Iraq on April 9 last
year.
US troops captured Saddam on December 13 as he was hiding in a hole in a
farm
near his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq.
The US administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, said last month Saddam would be
tried in a special court being set up by the US-appointed Governing
Council in
Iraq.
AFP
James Baker gave him the green light to invade and them double crossed
him you loon! Of course every person who has smoked weed feeds humans to
their dogs!
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