In the period before the Iraq war, Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister Naji Sabri, was a secret paid source of the CIA, “NBC Nightly News” reported on Monday. Citing unnamed current and former U.S. intelligence officials, NBC said Sabri provided details of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction that turned out to be more accurate than CIA estimates. Intelligence sources said Sabri was paid more than $100,000 through an intermediary in a September 2002 deal brokered by the French, NBC reported. Full Story