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Iraqi Commander 'saw USAF fly Saddam out of Baghdad'

Film will soon be made public of an Iraqi Army officer describing how he saw a US Air Force transport fly Saddam Hussein out of Baghdad. The explosive eyewitness testimony was shot by independent filmmaker Patrick Dillon, who recently returned from a risky one-man odyssey in Iraq.
In the film, the officer, who told Dillon that he commanded a special combat unit during the battle for Baghdad airport and whose identity is temporarily being withheld, explains in detail how he watched as the Iraqi dictator and members of his inner circle were evacuated from Iraq's capital by what he emphatically insists were United States Air Force cargo planes.
Dillon says his film lends major support to what many have believed for years: that Saddam was little more than an american tool, a stage-managed 'evildoer', just one in a long line of useful villains bought and paid for by the United States in order to better manipulate international politics and commerce.