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Iraq
Firing Squad Will Befit My Status — Saddam
2006-01-04
Jailed former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein told two of his lawyers that if he is sentenced to death for war crimes, he would rather die by firing squad than by hanging, The Washington Times said yesterday. “I don’t value this life that much. Every human being has his time to go,” lawyer Issam Ghazzawi said Saddam told him when they met in a basement of a Baghdad courthouse on Dec. 7 during a break in his trial. Ghazzawi said he and former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark raised the possibility that the former dictator might be sentenced to death if convicted of war crimes. “Of course I’m not guilty, but I know they want me dead,” Saddam said. “Threatening me with death doesn’t mean anything,” he told the two lawyers. “I don’t care less. The life of any one Iraqi is no less valuable than mine.” During his five-hour meeting with Ghazzawi and Clark, Saddam also praised the insurgency, saying it had prevented US attempts to “formulate a new world.”
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