Report: CIA believes
Saddam Hussein is alive in Iraq
03-06-2003, 06:49
The Central
intelligence Agency (CIA) has internal documents that
make clear Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is alive and
hiding in greater Baghdad, protected by an underground
resistance network of tribesmen and former Baath
officials, administration officials told United Press
International (UPI).
"There is a resistance
network and it is stronger than we originally thought,"
one administration source said.
"Saddam is
moving around inside Iraq and he's got a lot of
support," another US government official said, and
added, "A lot of what is being reported in the press as
'looting' is in fact sabotage by Baath party stay-behind
groups."
The underground Baath resistance
consists of former party officials who are funded with
money looted from the Iraqi treasury, this source said.
(Albawaba.com)
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