The CIA analysist who interrogated Saddam Hussein has claimed that the dictator's death warrant was signed 'on day one' after 9/11.
John Nixon who wrote the tell-all book Debriefing The President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein, was speaking on the BBC Radio 4's Today Programme when he said: "We had gotten word that they saw Iraq as 'unfinished business'.
"We never really understood at that point what unfinished business meant, but we knew that they wanted to do something.
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"We went to Iraq to do all of these things, to find the weapons of mass destruction, to help build a new Iraq, to establish rule of law, give the Iraqi people democracy, and one by one, all of those things just crumbled."
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He added: "You know, they had their minds made up from day one. And then after 9/11, that's when the death warrant for Saddam Hussein was signed." Hussein was found in a cave in December 2003 and executed in 2006.
The Chilcot report, released earlier this year, found that British Prime Minister Tony Blair "deliberately exaggerated the threat posed by Hussein" and that there was no "imminent threat from Hussein."
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