Saddam said to suffer torture in prison

Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is reportedly suffering from wounds he sustained during physical torture by his American jailors, a Jordanian paper said.

The daily al-Arab al-Yom said Wednesday that it received a report from the International Committee of the Red Cross indicating that Saddam suffered physical and psychological torture during detention.

The paper did not say how it got the report, which the Red Cross usually keeps confidential.

ICRC inspectors have twice visited Saddam in prison since U.S. forces captured him last December. On the first visit in February they relayed a letter from the former Iraqi dictator to his daughter Raghd who resides in Amman.

U.S. President George Bush said Tuesday the Coalition Authority would not hand over Saddam to the Iraqi government until after security is consolidated in Iraq.

His remark refuted Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s declaration that the U.S. would turn over Saddam to the Iraqi authorities within weeks. (UPI)

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