Interesting.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had secretly accepted a last-minute plan to go into exile to avert the 2003 Iraq war, but Arab leaders shot the proposal down, Al Arabiya television reported on Friday.

According to Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak the U.S. had expressed it's support of the plan as well.

I am always amazed at the vital informative news that seems to get away from journalists these days. We find out things long after they are of any value except to ask why? Perhaps it is because they are too interested in going after only that which suits their agenda?

via Ace.