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"SEGRENF a U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation I In Reply, Please Refer to Baghdad Operations Center File No. May 1, 2004 Interview Session Number: 20 Interview Conducted By: ss iro S SS Arabic/English Translation: Ls es Saddam Hussein (High Value Detainee # interviewed May 1, 2004, at a military detention fac Baghdad International Airport (BIAP), Baghdad, Iraq. provided the following information: SK Interviewers told Hussein they would closure to the family of the naval aviator, Michael Speicher, whose plane was shot down in Iraq during t 1) was ility at Hussein like to bring Scott War. Interviewers approached this discussion with Hussein from a humanitarian, and not a political point of view. Hussein responded by asking if this was the pilot that was downed in western Iraq? He proceeded by saying the interviewe Yrs were right to investigate this from a humanitarian point of view, and wished that this humanitarian effort would spread throughout the world. Yel Hussein viewed a photograph of Captai Hussein responded to the photograph by Saying that i chance to assist the interviewers, or the family of would tell them. n Speicher. £ he had a the pilot, he PS Hussein first became aware of the missing pilot when the Americans asked for assistance, through official channels, in recovering the remains. Hussein responded to the Americans by telling them Iraq would assist in any way they could. Hussein stated that Iraq had the right to shoot down the Plane, but no one has the right to hide the remains Hussein believes the official communication from the Americans was passed to him through Tarig Aziz, or possibly the Foreign Affairs Ministry. Hussein then provided his concurrence to Aziz or the Foreign Affairs Minister to lend assistance to the Americans in finding the remains. DECLASSIFIED BY uc/beaw 60524 7 09-11-2009 om Ss This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distribu It is the property of the ted outside your agency. 7 on