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Details of Saddam's Confinement

By Jeralyn, Section War In Iraq
Posted on Sat Sep 18, 2004 at 09:10:40 PM EST
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The New York Times has a long article with details of Saddam Hussein's confinement.

Shorter Saddam: I'm the real President of Iraq. I have done nothing wrong. May I have a cigar and a muffin, please?

The new interim Government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi is preparing for his trial. Not out of revenge, they say, but to help the Iraqi people heal.

Dr. Allawi said political calculations and a desire for revenge - he was nearly killed by assassins Mr. Hussein sent to his exile home in London, who attacked him with an ax while he slept, leaving him hospitalized for a year - played no part in his decision to accelerate the trials.

Iraqi Human Rights Minister Bakhtiar Amin adds:

This was a man whose regime used a shredder to turn human bodies into ground beef," said Mr. Amin, the 46-year-old rights minister, who spent years abroad as an exile chronicling the abuses of Mr. Hussein's government and petitioning foreign governments and rights organizations to shun the Iraqi government.

Right. No revenge here. Just healing.

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