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NYT：サダムは尋問に答えてイラクでの抵抗運動への関与と禁止兵器所有を否定。
アメリカにとっては、いわゆる「痛し痒し」の状況なり。
「本物逮捕」を宣伝するには、「禁止兵器所有を否定」の不利な材料を公開するに越したことはない。しかし、否定されると、ブッシュ政権の「嘘」が裏打ちされる。さあ、これから、どうするか。
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/16/international/middleeast/16SADD.html?th
December 16, 2003
THE CAPTIVE
Hussein Tells Interrogators He Didn't Direct Insurgency
By THOM SHANKER and JAMES RISEN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 ﾑ Saddam Hussein has denied playing any direct role in commanding Iraqi insurgents or in planning attacks after he went into hiding, and he said his government possessed no prohibited weapons, United States government officials said Monday.
Interrogators began questioning Mr. Hussein just hours after American forces captured him, officials said. An early focus of the interrogation, they said, has been anything he knows about the guerrilla war, in hopes of quickly gleaning information that might help prevent attacks and disrupt or dismember cells responsible for the attacks.
Mr. Hussein has also been quizzed about programs to develop unconventional weapons, according to Bush administration, Pentagon and intelligence officials, but he has so far denied the existence of such weapons. Officials said his denials were in line with statements of other top Iraqi officials who have been captured in recent months, and who still maintain that Baghdad did not have unconventional weapons.
American interrogators took the somewhat unusual step of immediately asking Mr. Hussein about substantive issues, in part because he appeared mentally and physically fatigued, and thus his resistance to interrogation seemed low, officials said.
Yet intelligence and military officials still said they were discounting much of the little information that Mr. Hussein had offered so far. The officials based in Washington who spoke about his interrogation were all referring to reports in briefings transmitted from Iraq.
They said it might take weeks or months for him to face up to the reality of his situation and begin to answer questions more candidly.
"He's the king of denial and deception," said Senator Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas and chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
One administration official said: "Obviously, there are a whole lot of answers we need on a whole lot of topics. He is compliant in the sense that he is responding, as opposed to being obstinate and not speaking at all. But he is not helpful."
Another senior administration official said Mr. Hussein "has given no indication that he will be a helpful person in getting information." But, the official said, "that is what we expected."
Still another official who has been briefed on the first days of his captivity said, "He is denying any direct involvement in the insurgency."
Several officials said they were not certain whether Mr. Hussein had said anything yet concerning possible Iraqi involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. But they said he had denied any knowledge of the fate of a United States Navy pilot who has been missing since the Persian Gulf war in 1991.
In one of the enduring mysteries of the first war with Iraq, Lt. Cmdr. Michael Scott Speicher, an F-18 pilot, was shot down on the first day of the air war in Iraq on Jan. 17, 1991. He is the only American still officially listed as missing in action from that war. He was first believed to have been killed in action, but his body was never recovered. After obtaining intelligence reports suggesting that he might have survived the crash of his aircraft, the Navy changed his status to missing in action in 2001.
American interrogators have learned from their experience with leaders of Al Qaeda who have been captured in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere that it can take long periods of captivity before resistance to questioning breaks down. It remains to be seen whether Mr. Hussein will put up the kind of stiff resistance that Qaeda operatives have shown. So far, administration officials said they were not satisfied with his answers.
When he was captured on Saturday, Mr. Hussein had no significant means of communication, officials said, although he was seized with $750,000 in cash and a taxi was found nearby.
Officials said he could have communicated with his lieutenants by courier, and not by cellular or satellite telephone, which was liable to be intercepted by American surveillance equipment and to give away his location.
While the money might have been used to underwrite the insurgency, an official said it was more likely that it was "his personal safety fund."
Maj. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, commander of the Fourth Infantry Division whose troops conducted the raid, said before Mr. Hussein's capture that military intelligence had determined that a sizable fund was hidden before Mr. Hussein's ouster. Those funds, the general said, were stashed in order to finance the expected guerrilla war against the American-led alliance.
So it would not have required Mr. Hussein's authority to disburse money for the attacks after he fled Baghdad and went into hiding.
Administration officials maintained a certain ambiguity about where Mr. Hussein was being interrogated.
After his capture by troops of the Fourth Infantry and a Special Operations unit called Task Force 121, he was handed off to a team of interrogators drawn from the military's Central Command and the Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency, officials said.
Allied forces, especially from Britain, are expected to play a role in the questioning. Iraqis will be brought in to question Mr. Hussein about accusations of mass killings and other war crimes, officials said.
Officials offered no conjecture as to why Mr. Hussein would deny involvement in the guerrilla-style insurgency, even though statements attributed to him since his ouster called on Iraqis to rise up against the Americans. It was also unknown whether he was making statements that took into account his status under international law.
A senior administration official said Mr. Hussein was being afforded protections granted prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.
But that official said the protected status could change should it be conclusively determined that once major combat operations were over and he left power, Mr. Hussein chose to play a role in subsequent attacks against nonmilitary targets that killed or wounded large numbers of noncombatants in violation of the laws of war.
Those attacks included the bombings of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad and the Jordanian Embassy there, as well as a number of local police stations.
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