Saad al-Bazzaz, once a confidant of Saddam and his sons, long edited the Saddam’s newspaper. He broke with the Iraqi President in 1992. Today, al-Bazzaz edits az-Zaman, the most popular newspaper in Iraq and also founded ash-Sharqiya, the most popular television station. This interview, from 1995, illuminates a bit about his foreign policy and, in retrospect, quite accurate.