In an official statement, a senior FBI official in Piro’s chain of command characterized the perceived success of their interrogation of Saddam Hussein as one of the agency's top accomplishments in its 100-year history. Piro discussed the interrogation process during an interview on the television news magazine 60 Minutes in January 2008. Bush, when in reality he was in a relatively low-level position at the time. government official with direct access to U.S. Saddam was led to believe that his interrogator was a high-ranking U.S. Saddam said he feared Al-Qaeda would have turned on him, and was quoted calling Osama bin Laden a "zealot." The face-to-face sessions were conducted by George Piro, an FBI supervisory special agent (SSA), one of only a few FBI agents who spoke Arabic fluently. Bush administration officials in support of its policy of regime change in Iraq. The former leader reportedly maintained that he did not collaborate with Al-Qaeda, as had been suggested by George W.
inspectors back into Iraq," according to the reports. weapons inspections because he "was more concerned about Iran discovering Iraq’s weaknesses and vulnerabilities than the repercussions of the United States for his refusal to allow U.N. Saddam denied repeated assertions by his interrogator of a current weapons of mass destruction capability in Iraq, yet had resisted U.N. ĭetailed questioning covered the Iran–Iraq War and his use of chemical weapons against Iranians. Saddam, identified as "High Value Detainee #1" in the documents, was the subject of 20 "formal interviews" followed by five "casual conversations." Questioning covered the span of Saddam's political career, from 2003 when he was found hiding in a " spider hole" on a farm near his home town of Tikrit, back to his role in a failed 1959 coup attempt in Iraq, after which he had taken refuge in the very same place, one report noted. Freedom of Information Act request filed by the National Security Archive. Standard FBI FD-302 forms filed at the time were declassified and released in 2009 under a U.S. Beginning in February 2004, the interrogation program, codenamed Operation Desert Spider, was controlled by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents. The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein began shortly after his December 2003 capture, while the deposed President of Iraq was held at the United States Camp Cropper detention facility at Baghdad International Airport. Saddam Hussein shortly after capture, after being shaved to confirm his identity
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