offical Iraqi (Saddam) reply to Bush ultimatum - CNN/Al-Jazeera do not allow broadcast

Ron Brynaert
Published: Monday October 30, 2006

Hossam Shaltout, a former political adviser to Saddam Hussein's son, said today that before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March of 2003, Saddam expressed his intent to yield to all American demands, but that the Bush administration refused his offers, according to a press release on Yahoo News.

Shaltout is a Canadian citizen who claims he was beaten repeatedly by U.S. officers while in an Iraqi detention camp, under suspicion of once having been a "right hand man" for Saddam Hussein.

"Saddam was willing to yield to all American demands, announced and unannounced, to reach peaceful resolution," said Shaltout, "but the Bush administration, including Elizabeth Cheney, undersecretary of State, David Welch, the U.S. ambassador in Egypt, and Gene Cretz, his political attache, did not respond to his offers."

Shaltout claims that in March of 2003, just as he was to read the Iraqi government's official reply to the Bush ultimatum on Al-Jazeera, the broadcast was interrupted and "the plug was pulled on the transmission." He also maintains that later, when the Americans arrived in Baghdad, he offered his assistance to U.S. military officials, but instead was arrested by Marines who went to his hotel suite and took his documents.

In May of 2004, Shaltout told his story to MSNBC's Chris Matthews.

"I was there to convince Saddam Hussein to step down, and I was in the last hours working on this peace agreement," Shaltout said. "And I wanted him to keep the agreement that he agreed to step down only 15 minutes before the (UNINTELLIGIBLE) of this ultimatum. That was what I was doing there."

The disclosure was made by Hossam Shaltout, a Canadian aerospace engineer, former American pilot, and founder of the peace organization Rights and Freedom International (Rights and Freedom), who said that war could have been averted, but Bush aides blocked his efforts to announce Saddam's decision.

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[xinecallaw]

Very interesting, if you look at the recorded UN Resolutions during that time period, it pretty much backs him up. This isnt propoganda, he is telling the truth, even though I already knew Bush was going to attack Iraq after I saw the first dumbass video clip on fox proclaiming Saddams possible involvement with 9/11.

[Grifinmod]

I guess they didn't want the reply to be made. He just moved on ..

[shootcocacola73]

cool story bro

[wisers001]

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