What Have American Inquisitors Done With Saddam Hussein? Chimp_junta Torturing Him Just As we Accused Him of Doing?

Red Cross visits Iraqi POWs, presses for access to Saddam

GENEVA — The Red Cross has visited imprisoned officials of Saddam Hussein's toppled regime and expressed confidence yesterday that U.S. authorities will allow it to see the former Iraqi dictator "sooner rather than later."

"He's a POW and supposed to be like any POW," said Nada Doumani, a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, which requested permission to visit Saddam soon after he was captured Dec. 13 and the United States declared him a prisoner of war.

She said the visit to Saddam should happen fairly "automatically" because the ICRC, which is entitled to see POWs under the Geneva Conventions on the conduct of war, has so far had access to all coalition locations for holding POWs and civilian internees.

The agency still doesn't know where Saddam is being held and will know for sure only when its delegates have seen him, Doumani said.