http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/January/focusoniraq_January97.xml§ion=focusoniraq&col=MOSCOW - The execution of Saddam Hussein was rushed to prevent the former Iraqi leader from revealing facts that could compromise the United States, former Russian prime minister Yevgeny Primakov said on Sunday.
Saddam was executed in an “unexpected” way so “he could not have the last word” and reveal compromising information on the relationship between the United States and his former regime, the veteran diplomat said on Rossiya television channel.
If Saddam Hussein “had said everything (he knew), the current US president (George W. Bush) would have been greatly embarrassed,” said Primakov, a Middle East expert formerly on good terms with Saddam.
Primakov highlighted the military cooperation between Washington and Baghdad during the 1980s when the United States was fighting the fundamentalist threat from Iran.
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