 A lawyer for Saddam Hussein and a Jordanian newspaper said on Monday that the former ruler's half brother rejected a purported US offer of a ranking Iraqi government position in exchange for testimony against the deposed leader. Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti allegedly made the claim Thursday in a closed-door hearing of the Higher Iraqi Tribunal which is hearing the cases against him, Saddam and five other co-defendants on war crime charges.
| I might buy the idea of letting him off with something less than a stretched neck, but giving him a fat sinecure in the new Iraqi gummint somehow doesn't quite ring true. |
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