"We saw what happened in the UN Security Council, what kind of statements were made... [We were shown] pictures of cars with missiles with nuclear warheads installed on them, which supposedly drove around Iraq. All these talks were empty and false. Everything was set up against Iraqi politicians. The assessment was wrong, and the intervention took place despite all the negative assessments regarding the destabilisation of Iraq and the Iraqi people, and the threats of the destruction of the country's very statehood", Moussa said.
"I asked [Saddam Hussein] if he would agree to it if there were guarantees that there would be no CIA agents among the experts and they would work at agreed facilities. Then he said that it was possible if there were guarantees that intelligence agents would not come under the guise of experts. I promised that I would discuss this issue with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Then the United States opposed this proposal, seeing a catch in it. That's when we understood that the intervention would happen", he said.