Brooks admits paying for story on Saddam
World News • March 2014 • Views: 1,097
Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire in the UK, has admitted paying a British official for a story on Saddam Hussein’s threat to swamp the country with anthrax poison in 1998.
During her sixth day in the witness box at the Old Bailey court yesterday, she said someone who was “clearly” a public official phoned the Sun to say the “secret service were covering up a plot by Saddam Hussein to bring in anthrax to this country”.
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