Saddam to be moved to new jail in Iraq at the start of July: PM

[kskiska]

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Former president Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) is to be moved at the start of July to a new jail with Iraqi guards and limited support from the US-led military, Iraq (news - web sites)'s interim prime minister Iyad Allawi said.

"He will be kept by Iraqis ... We may ask a multinational force to be involved in the protection of the outside, of the outskirts of the prison, but definitely he will be under the jurisdiction of Iraq," he said Sunday.

"You will see him move and you will know where he is," Allawi told a small group of reporters.

The premier said the transfer would happen imminently. "Very, very soon ... Maybe the second or third or fourth (of July), definitely within a very short period," Allawi said.

A senior official of the US-led coalition said last week that Iraq would take legal custody of Saddam and nine other high-profile prisoners soon after the country gained sovereignty on June 30, but coalition jailers would continue to guard them.

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[DianeG5385]

1. Means he will likely be assassinated....

Before he can go on trial. No way the Bushistas can let the truth of what Saddamm knows from the 80s and 90s get out!

[Solly Mack]

2. I agree! Too much for them to lose for Saddam to live and actually stand

a trial. The things Saddam could tell us. I don't know about anyone else but I dearly want the truth...the entire truth.

[wtmusic]

4. Yep, a situation where LIHOP/MIHOP will not only be credible but likely

* knows if Saddam walks he's toast.

[mike_c]

3. Saddam Hussein will never stand trial in public....

eom

[daleo]

5. In other words: Attention all Iraqi Jack Rubys

"You will see him move and you will know where he is"

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

6. I imagine he will be taking a small plane or a helicopter

during his trip, no?

They seem to have a really bad habit of crashing, don't they?

Or, they let him go on trail, and in the midst of the trial the defense lets slip the bombshell, that the guy they have is a body double.

Either way will be a black eye for * and his incompetent idiots.