America quietly sacks its prize witness against Saddam (Hamza)

America quietly sacks its prize witness against Saddam
By Patrick Cockburn

17 April 2004

Once he was a prize witness before congressional committees, arguing that the US must invade Iraq immediately because Saddam Hussein possessed a fearsome arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. Given a top job in Baghdad after the war, he has now been quietly sacked by the US authorities.

Khidir Hamza was the dissident Iraqi nuclear scientist who played an important role persuading Americans to go to war in Iraq. His credentials appeared impeccable because he claimed to have headed Saddam's nuclear programme before defecting in 1994.

After the war, Dr Hamza was rewarded, to the distress of many Iraqi scientists, with a well-paid job as the senior advisor to the Ministry of Science and Technology. Appointed by the Coalition Provisional Authority, he had partial control of Iraq's nuclear and military industries.

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(snagged at Eschaton)

what has happened to saddam? we seen the picture of him a couple of times but then it seems all mention of him has fell silent..

I know they tell us the Red Cross seen him...but nothing else....I would think that this administration would be bragging at the top of their lungs about having him and touting it all over bushs ads....but still silence..........

did we really get him or did bush get a double?? I'm beginning to wonder about this...I don't trust them at all in pulling fast ones.

getting any information from him. THAT you'd hear about!

Very interesting.

Why would the media pay any attention now when they didn’t pay attention earlier….

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35147


the CIA has known all along that Hamza was a fraud. Nevertheless, they allowed Hamza – and David Kay – to mislead Congress right up until the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Even when a genuine Iraqi nuke scientist – Imad Khadduri – "outed" Hamza last November, the media elite paid little attention.