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September 20, 2004
Mercy for Saddam?
Cairo - Toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is miserable sitting in a jail cell awaiting trial on charges of crimes against humanity and has begged for mercy, Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said in an interview published on Monday.
"He is distraught and depressed," Allawi told the Arabic daily Al-Hayat in an interview from London where the Iraqi leader is currently on a visit.
"Saddam and his cronies are not the all-powerful men that they are sometimes portrayed as in the media," said Allawi, whose government took power from the US occupation in late June.
"Saddam transmitted a message to me begging for mercy. He said they had been working for the public interest and their goal was not to do harm."
But Allawi said his response was: "It is for the courts to decide."
Posted by LindaSoG at September 20, 2004 06:49 AM