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=== News Update ===
Bush calls for Saddam execution
US President George W Bush has said that the captured former Iraqi leader
Saddam Hussein should pay the "ultimate penalty" for his crimes.
What crimes? There were no WMDs, Saddam had nothing to do with 9-11, did
not aid Al Qaeda, was not in defiance of the UN. Iran gassed the Kurds as
an act of war.
So what did Saddam do? Lie his people into a war? Yeah, I agree that
deserves the death penalty. Spy on his own people? Yeah, if he did that,
that deserves the death penalty. Murder his own people without due process?
Ever hear of a place called Waco?
Saddam Hussein
Bush calls for Saddam execution. Mr Bush said the Iraqi people should
decide Saddam's fate
US President George W Bush has said that the captured former Iraqi leader
Saddam Hussein should pay the "ultimate penalty" for his crimes.
"This is a disgusting tyrant who deserves... the ultimate justice," he said
in a US television interview.
His comments put the US sharply at odds with the United Nations and
European allies who oppose the death penalty.
Earlier, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced the CIA would take
charge of interrogating Saddam Hussein.
In the aftermath of the deposed leader's capture on Saturday, Mr Bush
avoided answering questions on what punishment he wanted to see imposed.
But his latest comments confirm what most people believed were the Texan
president's views, says the BBC's Justin Webb, in Washington.
"Let's just see what penalty he gets, but I think he ought to receive the
ultimate penalty ... for what he has done to his people," Mr Bush told ABC
News.
"I mean, he is a torturer, a murderer, they had rape rooms. This is a
disgusting tyrant who deserves justice, the ultimate justice."
But the president said that he did not want a "kangaroo court", and that
only the Iraqi people should decide what punishment their former leader
deserved.
In other developments:
* US forces say they are continuing a big operation to isolate and
eliminate insurgents in the town of Samarra, north of Baghdad. They have
already arrested more than 70 suspects;
* United Nations chief Kofi Annan said the UN was ready to play its
full part in helping Iraq, but "much greater clarity" was needed as to what
was expected from it;
* The interim Iraqi Foreign Minister appealed to the United Nations to
move back to Iraq and help with its reconstruction.
Saddam 'resigned'
Earlier, Mr Rumsfeld said he had asked the CIA chief, George Tenet, to take
responsibility for the interrogation of Saddam Hussein.
Mr Rumsfeld refused to comment on whether he had revealed any useful
information so far and described the former leader's relationship with his
captors simply as "resigned".
He was being accorded the protection of a prisoner of war, but his actual
legal status was still being decided, Mr Rumsfeld said.
He also defended showing pictures of Saddam Hussein as a prisoner,
undergoing medical checks.
"If lives can be saved by physical proof that that man is off the street,
out of commission, never to return, then we opt for saving lives," Mr
Rumsfeld said.
'Dead or alive'
There has been much speculation in the American media about the form that
Saddam Hussein's interrogation might take.
In his television interview, President Bush said he did not know what
precise techniques were being employed, but he said we do not use torture.
Mr Bush also had a warning for the US's most-wanted man - al-Qaeda leader,
Osama bin Laden, saying he would be captured "dead or alive".
"We're on his trail, too. He's probably in a hole somewhere hiding from
justice," Mr Bush said.
source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3326311.stm
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