Saddam teria entrado em acordo com os EUA?

Pelo menos é o que pensa boa parte da população do Oriente Médio. Vale a pena ler o editoral do jornal saudita (em inglês) ArabNews. Segue um trecho:

Many have long thought that Osama was allowed to get away because his capture would have put a premature end to the so-called “war on terror”. Perhaps, if a deal was done with Saddam through his old pals in the CIA, as is widely believed in the Middle East, part of the reason was that Saddam could not then reveal the documents and other evidence which could bring home to the American people in any subsequent trial the blatant hypocrisy of successive US governments’ foreign policy in the Middle East.