Periscope.(Saddam's regime; Asian currencies; Mother Teresa's statue)

Iraq: Questions, Questions

Saddam Hussein was apparently convinced that U.S. forces would never invade Iraq and oust him from power, say U.S. officials familiar with the accounts of captured members of the former dictator's regime. U.S. Defense and security sources say that high-ranking former Saddam aides have told U.S. interrogators that Saddam believed the only assault President George W. Bush would ever launch against Iraq was the kind of low-risk bombing campaign that the Clinton administration used in the former Yugoslavia. Saddam was also confident that France and Germany would pressure the United States to retreat from this course, leaving Iraq shaken but ...