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SADDAM'S MISTRESS TELLS ALL!
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SADDAM'S MISTRESS TELLS ALL!

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EX-MISTRESS REVEALS SADDAM'S TWISTED SECRETS
In a Sept. 8 interview with ABC News, Parisoula Lampsos, who says she was
Saddam Hussein's mistress, described the Iraqi dictator as a twisted sadist who
has a Hitler fetish and enjoys watching video-tapes of his enemies being
tortured--but cried as the allies drove his forces from Kuwait in Operation
Desert Storm. "He don't believe in his mother, he don't believe in God, he didn't
believe in nobody," Lampsos told ABC's Claire Shipman in an interview from a
safe house in Lebanon. "He believe only for Saddam. He look at the mirror, 'I
am Saddam....Heil Hitler!'" Lampsos provided an intimate look at the dictator
relaxing at home. She said Saddam loves watching The Godfather, listening to
"Strangers in the Night" by Frank Sinatra, and seeing videos from his regime's
own torture chambers. He sometimes dons a cowboy hat, sips whiskey on the
rocks and puffs a cigar as he watches the torture. "He was happy, happy,
happy," she said of the torture viewing. "Happiest day."

Lampsos said Saddam has met and given money in the past to Osama bin
Laden, claiming she saw bin Laden at Hussein's palace in the 1980s. She also
claimed Saddam's oldest son Oday told her his father met with bin Laden again
in the mid 1990s and gave him money. Lampsos believes Saddam ordered the
assassination of Oday, seeing him as a potential rival. The assassination attempt
failed, leaving Oday paralyzed. "I didn't want it this way," Lampsos recalled
Saddam saying afterwards. "I wanted him to die. It was better for him."

Lampsos claims that she was Saddam's favorite of three wives and six
mistresses over a period of 30 years, and saw him on a daily basis. But since
fleeing Iraq last year, she fears Saddam will try to kill her, and disguises herself
by wearing a veil in public. [top]

12. 9-11 SURVIVORS SUE IRAQ
A lawsuit filed on the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks alleges Iraq's government
knew Osama bin Laden was targeting the World Trade Center and Pentagon
prior to Sept. 11, and had sponsored terrorists to avenge Saddam's defeat in
the Gulf War. "Since Iraq could not defeat the U.S. military, it resorted to terror
attacks on US citizens," according to the suit filed in federal court in Manhattan
on behalf of 1,400 victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and their families. The suit
names bin Laden, al-Qaeda and Iraq as defendants, and seeks more than $1
trillion in damages.

Brought by Kreindler & Kreindler, a Manhattan firm specializing in aviation
disaster litigation, the suit relies in part on an article published in an Iraqi
newspaper July 21, 2001. The suit claims a columnist writing under the byline
Naeem Abd Muhalhal for a paper in the Iraqi city of Al Nasiriyah described bin
Laden thinking "seriously, with the seriousness of the Bedouin of the desert,
about the way he will try to bomb the Pentagon after he destroys the White
House." The columnist allegedly wrote that bin Laden was "insisting very
convincingly that he will strike America on the arm that is already hurting," a
reference to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. The suit asserts that
a former associate claimed the writer has been connected with Iraqi intelligence
since the early 1980s, and was praised bySaddam Hussein in the paper's Sept.
1, 2001, issue for his "documentation of important events and heroic deeds that
proud Iraqis have accomplished." (AP, Sept. 11) [top]

ELSEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

1. SAUDIS SLAM BREAKS ON RE-OPENING OIL SECTOR TO U.S. FIRMS
In a surprise move with implications both for US-Saudi relations and the profits
of US oil companies, the Saudi monarchy has decided it won't open its most
promising natural-gas fields to western firms, sources told the Wall Street
Journal. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal reportedly outlined the
kingdom's new stance in a letter to the western consortium, led by ExxonMobil
and Royal Dutch/Shell. On the key issue of opening its most potentially lucrative
gas fields to non-Saudi companies, the letter said "absolutely not," according to
an anonymous oil-company official. The move seems to end a year-long plan by
US companies to invest $25 billion in Saudi Arabia, in what was billed as an
historic re-opening of the kingdom's energy sector. Saudi Arabia has produced
all of its own oil and gas since the 1970s, when it bought out four major US oil
companies' interests in Aramco. (Dow Jones, Sept. 9) [top]

2. ARAB LEAGUE THINK-TANK HOSTS HOLOCAUST-DENIAL CONFAB?
On August 28, the Zayed Center, a think-tank sponsored by the Arab League
and based in Abu Dhabi, hosted a symposium on "Semitism," which according
to the Jewish Anti-Defamation League included Holocaust-denial propaganda.
The official press release announcing the event said the symposium would
"counter the historical and political fallacies propagated by Israel." In particular,
the Center said Israel has been "spreading lies and exaggerations about
holocaust [sic] in order to squeeze out huge sums of money from European
countries through worst [sic] forms of blackmail." The Zayed Center's chairman
is Sultan Bin Zayed Al Nahayan, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab
Emirates. In a publication entitled Those Who Challenged Israel, the Center
denies the destruction of European Jewry during World War II, lauding such
Holocaust deniers as the French radical intellectual Roger Garoudy and the
now-disgraced British historian David Irving. (Anti-Defamation League
backgrounder, Aug. 2002)

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