What did Saddam Hussein say about 9/11

[stpauler]

I’m racking my internet searching ability to find it, but I remember him saying some condolences about the event. Any help here?

[stpauler]

Never mind, found it:

In a meeting with a representative of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Saddam said, "Bush wants us to pay our condolences, but if I were to do that I would not be respecting my people. Bush is the president of a state that is launching a war on us … in a mean, terroristic manner.

“And if I offered condolences to its president, this would be hypocrisy, and we are not hypocrites. Since offering condolences is a kind of courtesy between states, but we offered condolences to small organizations in America and to an American personality [Ramsey Clark] who came to extend condolences for America’s calamities against us.”