[W]hen Aziz was asked by his American interrogators about if the American ambassador in Baghdad encouraged Saddam or gave him the "green light" to invade Kuwait back in 1990, Aziz answered with "NO" and said that this was merely a rumor and this is according to his lawyer who gave an interview to the Iraqi paper Al-Mashriq.This story, based on fake transcripts issued by the Iraqi government, was avidly embraced at the time by those on the left who wished to discredit G. H. W Bush and the whole war effort and, despite having been refuted time and again by the State Department, still hangs on in some quarters. Maybe this will give it a rest.
The significance of the confession made by Aziz comes form the fact there is a strong conspiracy theory here and in the Arab world that appeared right after the gulf war and suggested that the US set a trap for Saddam and that the American administration at that time wanted him to invade Kuwait in order to give the US the excuse to destroy Iraq's army and build American bases in the gulf region and of course control and steal all the (what else?) oil.
They ones who spread this conspiracy theory were apparently trying to put the blame on America but at the same time they failed to realize that even if their theroy was true, it wasn't going to make him look innocent; instead, it was only going to make Saddam look more foolish!
Well, I guess another conspiracy theory has just been shot dead, ironically on the hands of the ones who invented it!
Read it here.
He also reports on the first women's protest in Najaf, demanding equal rights and opposing any attempt to impose Share'at law. [here]
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