Interrogator Shares Saddam’s Confessions, Tells 60 Minutes Former Iraqi Dictator Didn’t Expect U.S. Invasion
7 05 2008(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.
this is an older 60 Minutes story– from sometime in mid-January of ‘08– but it is by far one of my favorite stories they have ever done. It’s definitely worth a watch!