Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi confirmed that the late president Saddam Hussein did not engage with "illegal money." In an interview with the newspaper "Asharq Al-Awsat," Allawi pointed out that "the authorities that emerged after the fall of the regime conducted investigations and did not find a single property in Saddam Hussein's name, including the plane he used for travel," noting that "Saddam's concern was power, not money, and he did not engage with illegal money because he was conservative."
He emphasized that "Saddam led a team of resistance against the American occupation," recalling that "despite his personal injuries from an assassination attempt by the regime, he refused to visit Saddam after his arrest so that he would not see the President of Iraq in the hands of occupying soldiers, as tradition does not permit gloating. Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani also refused, as gloating is not our custom."
Allawi spoke about the assassination attempt against him in London by "the regime's axe which wounded him and his wife," indicating that "the perpetrators sneaked into the morgue at night to confirm his death." He recounted that the Iraqi authorities, with the help of the Americans, lured the executing officer from Turkey and brought him to the prison, where he died of cancer, stating that "America destroyed Iraq and Iran was its partner."
He revealed that U.S. President Joe Biden intervened with him several times during Barack Obama’s presidency to persuade him to relinquish his rights in favor of keeping Nouri al-Maliki as Prime Minister to please Iran, and attempted to entice him with the position of President.
