IRAQ: A MEMBER OF THE U.S.-BACKED IRAQI GOVERNING COUNCIL HAS DENIED THAT SADDAM HUSSEIN HAS BEEN MOVED TO QATAR

Record ID: 647215

  • Title: IRAQ: A MEMBER OF THE U.S.-BACKED IRAQI GOVERNING COUNCIL HAS DENIED THAT SADDAM HUSSEIN HAS BEEN MOVED TO QATAR
  • Date: 15th December 2003
  • Summary: (W5) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (DECEMBER 15,2003)(REUTERS) 1. SV PULL IN MCU (English) MUWAFAQ AL-RUBAIYE, MEMBER OF THE U.S.-BACKED IRAWI GOVERNING COUNCIL, SAYING: "I found a very broken man. I think he was psychologically ruined and he was very demoralised if you like. His body language showed that he was very miserable and broken." 0.26 2. CU OF HAND 0.30 3. MCU (English) MUWAFAQ AL-RUBAIYE, SAYING: "I came of of that meting very angry that he has absolutely no remorse towards the crimes he has committed against the Iraqi. The man is unrepentant. He is pure evil, he is really pure evil." 0.52 4. SV MUWAFAQ AL-RUBAIYE SPEAKING TO JOURNALIST 0.57 5. CU HAND 1.00 6. MCU (English) MUWAFAQ AL-RUBAIYE, SAYING "I can tell you he will not leave Iraq and he will be tried in Iraq and he will be sentenced in Iraq and he will serve a sentence in Iraq." 1.14 7. SV MUWAFAQ AL-RUBAIYE SPEAKING TO JOURNALIST 1.18 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 30th December 2003 12:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA3A3PZX2A8I3BQVN7UF1GZ7RT4
  • Story Text: A member of the U.S.-backed Iraqi Governing Council
    has denied that Saddam Hussein has been moved to Qatar.



    In an interview on Monday (December 15) in the Iraqi
    capital of Baghdad a member of the U.S.-backed Iraqi
    Governing Council said he found a "broken man" when he met
    former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

    "I think he was psychologically ruined and he was very
    demoralised if you like. His body language showed that he
    was very miserable and broken," Muwafaq al-Rubaiye said.

    Al-Rubaiye said he left the meeting feeling very angry
    and that Saddam was "pure evil".

    "He has absolutely no remorse towards the crimes he has
    committed against the Iraqi. The man is unrepentant. He is
    pure evil, hew is really pure evil," Muwafaq al-Rubaiye
    said.

    CNN had reported earlier on Monday that the former Iraqi
    president had been spirited away to a U.S. base in the Gulf
    state of Qatar, but al-Rubaiye denied the report.

    "I can tell you he will not leave Iraq and he will be
    tried in Iraq and he will be sentenced in Iraq and he will
    serve a sentence in Iraq," he said.

    The U.S. military said Saddam, who had urged his troops
    to go down fighting against invading U.S.-led forces,
    surrendered without a shot being fired despite having a
    pistol.

    Soldiers who caught him said that surprised them,
    especially after his two trusted sons died with guns
    blazing in July.

    Saddam's compliant end, looking like anything but the
    commander of a resistance movement, brought contempt.


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