Hossam Shaltout - Arrested

Writer: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.


More info on Hossam Shaltout:
www.rightsandfreedom.com

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[DTownzz]

Anyone who worked with Saddam's government's efforts to gas the kurds and rape citizens and feed them into shredders is an unworthy soul.

This dude's website (the URL above!) says he tried to interefere with our troops entering Iraq. Whether you agree with the war or not, the description above is provably dishonest propaganda.

[ReneVarma]

Dem Amrican marines are not forgiving. As if 20 of them with high powered rifles need to handcuff this man and put him face down in a humvee. Basically kidnapping.