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Shin Bet Chief: “I’m not sure we won’t miss Saddam”

HeadlineFeb 10, 2006

Meanwhile, the head of Israel’s Shin Bet security service is drawing headlines for comments made during a secretly-recorded speech at a West Bank settlement last week. Addressing the Iraq war and the ouster of Saddam Hussein, Yuval Diskin said: “When you dismantle a system in which there is a despot who controls his people by force, you have chaos. You get what happened in Iraq. I’m not sure we won’t miss Saddam.” Diskin also said he believes Israel’s judicial system treats Arab and Jewish suspects differently, saying: “I do not see equality in the way the system handles them when they are guilty of the same type of offence,” he said.

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