Any tears? Nah, didn't think so.
Via Sunday Times (UK):
Saddam the poet ready for hangman
Tyrant tells all to woman lawyer
THE former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has resigned himself to being sent to the gallows. “I am ready to die,” he told his lawyer and confidante in an interview in his Baghdad prison. “I am not scared of execution.”
Saddam is expected to return to court tomorrow for the resumption of a chaotic trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity that has lasted almost seven months.
“I do not attend this trial to spare my life,” he said. “I attend it to defend Iraq.”
Saddam, who refuses all visits from his family, was talking to Bushra Khalil, a Lebanese lawyer in her forties who is now the only woman he meets. In their meetings Saddam often prefers to talk to her about poetry or international relations rather than the minutiae of the defence case.
Khalil told The Sunday Times of an intimate five-hour interview conducted with Saddam in his prison within the past few weeks. [READ IT ALL HERE]
Comments