Diaa Al-Khiyoun, former Iraqi Deputy Minister of Finance and former General Director of the Rafidain Bank, revealed details about the possessions of the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, which he examined at the request of the Americans. In an interview on the program "Political Memory" on Al Arabiya channel, Al-Khiyoun stated that the Americans asked him to take charge of Saddam Hussein's possessions, explaining: "I was the head of this possessions committee, and when I initially requested to decline, they told me it was an order that must be carried out."
He mentioned that he selected four individuals for the committee, one from the Central Bank, another from the Office of Financial Supervision, a third from his senior staff at the bank, and the fourth, named Saddam Al-Hilali, who worked as a goldsmith, in order to uncover the possessions of Saddam.
#### The Possessions are Divided into 60 Items
Al-Khiyoun clarified that the Americans gathered these possessions in one location and organized their quantities into lists divided into 160 items such as (watches, diamonds, artifacts, gold). He added: "When we came to receive the possessions, one of the American officers present was walking around, opening a box and covering it. He asked me to take off my watch; I found it insulting, but later he explained that one of Saddam Hussein's watches was exactly the same, and he asked me to remove it so there wouldn’t be claims that Diaa took the watch."
He pointed out that among the possessions were diamond contracts for Saddam's wife, labeled "priceless," and Rolex watches especially made for Saddam Hussein, with one specifically made for Umm Adi. Al-Khiyoun even noted that there was one earring, which the Americans recorded in the list as "one earring."
Al-Khiyoun confirmed that he "cannot attribute a numerical value to those possessions."
