When the FBI interrogated Saddam Hussein after his capture in Iraq in December 2003, the agency had two key objectives: uncover the truth about the Iraqi dictator’s weapons of mass destruction, and determine his links with al-Qaeda.
These had been pivotal in making the case for war as President George W Bush and American intelligence agencies tied Saddam and the Iraqi regime to the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington by the terror group two years earlier.
