- NEW YORK -- Former
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said, "Don't shoot," when captured
by U.S. troops at a farmhouse near his hometown of Tikrit, according to
the U.S. weekly magazine Newsweek in its latest issue. After asking the
U.S. military not to shoot him, Saddam said, "I am Saddam Hussein,
the president of the Republic of Iraq," Newsweek said, quoting a military
source.
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- The weekly magazine Time, quoting a U.S. intelligence
official who read the transcript of the initial interrogation report, said
Saddam was taken to Baghdad airport. When asked if Iraq had weapons of
mass destruction, Time said Saddam told U.S. interrogators, "No, of
course not. The U.S. dreamed them up itself to have a reason to go to war
with us." (Wire reports)
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