Saddam no esperaba la invasión

La cadena norteamericana CBS emite mañana domingo en su programa "60 minutes" una entrevista al agente del FBI George Piro, que interrogó a Saddam Hussein durante siete meses tras su detención. El Washington Post avanza algunos titulares de la misma:

Hussein "thought the United States would retaliate with the same type of attack as we did in 1998 . . . a four-day aerial attack," Piro said in the interview, according to CBS. "He survived that one and he was willing to accept that type of attack."[...]
Even when Hussein realized that U.S. military action was imminent, he sought to continue to project a strong image because of his worries about a potential Iranian invasion, Piro said. "For him, it was critical that he was seen as still the strong, defiant Saddam. He thought that . . . would prevent the Iranians from reinvading Iraq," Piro is quoted by CBS as saying.
Hussein's strategy upon facing the U.S. invasion was to tell his generals to try to hold back the U.S. forces for two weeks, "and at that point, it would go into what he called the secret war," Piro said, referring to the Iraqi insurgency.

En la entrevista también se aborda el motivo de la invasión de Kuwait en 1990:

What really triggered it for him, according to Saddam, was he had sent his foreign minister to Kuwait to meet with the emir al-Sabah . . . to try to resolve some of these issues. And the emir told the foreign minister of Iraq that he would not stop doing what he was doing until he turned every Iraqi woman into a $10 prostitute. And that really sealed it for him, to invade Kuwait," Piro said in the interview, according to CBS.