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...it's a gas.
More claims of chemical weapons use by US forces:
SADDAM HUSSEIN’S lawyer has said that the former Iraqi dictator claims that he was gassed while hiding in his bolthole in an attempt to evade the US troops who captured him two years ago.According to accounts at the time, Saddam, who was armed with a pistol, crawled out of his hole stating "My name is Saddam Hussein. I am the president of Iraq and I want to negotiate."Saddam allegedly told Ramsay Clarke, 78, a former US Attorney-General who is one of the lawyers representing him: “I came out of the house where I was hiding by this hole. I went through the trapdoor. I went down the hole, through the tunnel, then lost consciousness.”
Mr Clarke told The Sun: “Saddam thinks he was gassed in the tunnel. He told us he spent maybe minutes in this tunnel, not hours or days.
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Saddam told his lawyer that he had hoped to emerge unnoticed in nearby bushes and then escape on the motorcycle. “I believe I was betrayed. I have been set up,” he added.
In an unrelated outrage, a court in Jordan has sentenced Abu Musab Zarqawi to death:
Jordan's military court sentenced Iraq insurgent leader Abu Musab Zarqawi and two others to death for the second time in connection with a failed suicide bombing along the Iraqi border a year ago.An un-named spokesman for Zarqawi, who is suspected of beheading Nick Berg because of George Bush, said his future plans include writing a Pulitzer Prize-winning anti-al-Qaeda book for children.Zarqawi and one of the other defendants were sentenced in absentia. A third man, Fahd Noman Suwelim Feheiqi, a Saudi, is in custody.
The military court previously sentenced the Jordanian-born Zarqawi, who is believed to be in Iraq, to death for the October 2002 slaying of U.S. aid worker Laurence Foley, who was gunned down outside his Amman home.
Various "human" rights groups world wide are thought to be preparing statements on both atrocities.
