Rumsfeld offered to free Saddam
05/01/05
US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld paid a secret visit to former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and offered him freedom and possible return to public life if he made a televised request to armed groups for a ceasefire with allied forces, a media report said. Saddam promptly rejected the offer, Ynetnews reported quoting a London based Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily. The visit came during Rumsfeld's visit to Iraq about two weeks ago and was known only to a few Iraqi officials in Jordan, the Arab daily reported quoting sources...
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1343693,00050004.htm
from Hindustan Times [India] -- Hat Tip to Talk Left
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld paid a secret visit to former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and offered him freedom and possible return to public life if he made a televised request to armed groups for a ceasefire with allied forces, a media report said. Saddam promptly rejected the offer, Ynetnews reported quoting a London based Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily. The visit came during Rumsfeld's visit to Iraq about two weeks ago and was known only to a few Iraqi officials in Jordan, the Arab daily reported quoting sources...
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1343693,00050004.htm
from Hindustan Times [India] -- Hat Tip to Talk Left
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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