Red Cross Visits Saddam Hussein in Custody

Here:

Officials from the International Committee of the Red Cross
visited former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on Saturday, an ICRC
spokeswoman said.
"The visit took place this morning Baghdad time," Antonella Notari told
Reuters in Geneva. She said the visit took place in Iraq but she did
not disclose exactly where, under agreement with U.S. forces holding
Saddam since his capture in December. The Red Cross team included an
Arabic speaker and a doctor. Saddam wrote a message to be delivered to
his family, Notari said. Under the terms of the Geneva Convention
covering prisoners of war, which Washington has said applies to Saddam,
U.S. forces were obliged to give the ICRC access to the 66-year-old
former president. As is usual with the organization's visits to
detainees, the ICRC did not comment on Saddam's condition.

I bet they're giving Saddam the full-on Room 101 treatment. Fake
newspapers, bright lights, and the complete discography of Britney
Spears.
One shudders at the thought.

Posted by flow Frazao on February 21, 2004 at 09:48 AM | Permalink