Saddam attempted to bribe U.N. inspector
From the Telegraph:
Saddam Hussein's regime offered a $2 million (£1.4 million) bribe to the United Nations' chief weapons inspector to doctor his reports on the search for weapons of mass destruction.
Rolf Ekeus, the Swede who led the UN's efforts to track down the weapons from 1991 to 1997, said that the offer came from Tariq Aziz, Saddam's foreign minister and deputy.
This raises some interesting questions:
- This inspector, an honest one, turned down the money. How many inspectors did not?
- Why would Saddam pay two million dollars to doctor the evidence on weapons that we are now endlessly told did not exist?