GW National Security Archive: Rumsfeld-Hussein Handshake Most Downloaded File Ever...

Wall Street Journal September 8, 2006 at 08:23 PM
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With Defense Secretary Rumsfeld making "appeasement" the big buzzword of the month, the George Washington University's National Security Archive notes that its single most-downloaded file is now the once-classified batch of documents, photos and video documenting Rumsfeld's handshake and meeting with Saddam Hussein in December 1983. President Reagan had sent Rumsfeld to Baghdad to help restore diplomatic ties with Iraq and aid Baghdad in its fight against Iran.

"Rumsfeld meeting Saddam has now far outpaced the previous winner, which was Elvis meeting Nixon," says Thomas Blanton, director of the archive, which collects and posts significant declassified documents under the Freedom of Information Act.

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