Arab News
Ousted dictator Saddam Hussein remains in Iraq and will be handed over to a special court being set up by the US-appointed Governing Council to face charges of genocide and invasion of neighboring countries, US administrator Paul Bremer said in an interview published yesterday. âSaddam is in Iraq now, and yes he will be tried publicly by a special Iraqi court when the prerequisites for setting up such a court are completed,â Bremer told Asharq Al-Awsat, a sister publication of Arab News. âSaddam will be handed over to the Governing Council after it finishes setting up the court,â Bremer said. Asked if Saddam was cooperating with investigators, Bremer replied: âHe is not cooperating, but he is not a troublemaker either.â
| "He spends most of his time sitting in a corner, playing with his lips." |
âHe has not given us any important or useful information up to now and has not confessed to the whereabouts of his offshore funds, but we know for sure that he has a lot of money outside Iraq. Saddam was in good health as shown by recent medical exams,â but no new photographs of him will be released before his trial. |