Read this column by David Ignatius 
from July 18th. I don’t think it got enough attention. Saddam Hussein’s science adviser, Amir Saadi, was one of the less loathsome of the ex-regime’s public faces. He was the liaison with the inspectors. He wasn’t a Baath party member, had lived a good bit of time abroad, and he was the first guy to turn himself in.
That was on April 12th and he’s apparently been in solitary ever since.
Here are two of the key grafs …
Saadi’s friends say there has been quiet discussion about his case with the Coalition Provisional Authority headed by L. Paul Bremer. Believing that Saadi is “clean,” some officials of the authority have recommended three times to higher officials at the Pentagon that he be released, according to Saadi’s friends. Each of these requests has been rejected, they say.
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What’s bothersome about these cases is that they reinforce the impression that the Bush administration has something to hide. Why not disclose the testimony of people the coalition worked so hard to catch? The only convincing explanation, argues a former CIA official, is that their accounts would “directly refute the Bush administration’s insistence that WMD still exist somewhere — an assertion that we all know is growing more questionable every day.”
Take a peek at the whole column.
