Show !: ' A2— r The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday December 16 2003 Saddam capture :y?T 'J ' '' ' j i : ' 7'77777:--'7-- I : I Iftedl Cross waiinitis dgM ' — The international GENEVA V Red Cross said Monday it coasidets Saddam Hussein a prisoner of war and wants US authorities toallow it to Visit the ousted Iraqi leader to check the conditions in which he is being v ' held ' The United States has not formally declared Saddam a prisoner of war ' though Defease Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld said Saddam would be given ' 7 ROW rights under the Geneva Con' ventions Rumsfeld however added 7 thatySaddam's classification may " change and he may lose POW status if it appears he had a role in the postwar (P) - treatment o( prisoners of war has not set a date with the US military to see r Saddam Westphal said “There’s no fixed time frame within thq Geneva Conventions It doesn’t say that these visits have to take place ‘ within 48 hours But we expect Sad- dam Hussein — as apy other pre- sumed real or accepted POW —will at some stage be visited by the ICRC" he said The US-le- d authorities running Iraq have granted the ICRC access to other captured members of Saddam's former regime including those on the US insurgency in Iraq that has killed more than 200 Americans A Red Cross spokesman Florian Westphal would not comment directly on Rumsfeld’s comments: But he Said Saddam “was the commander in chief of the Iraqi army which seems to indi- cate that he should at least be pro-' " sumedaPOW” “We expect any state bound by die Geneva Conventions to live up to its commitments” he told The Associated Press The International Convention of the Red Cross which as the guardian of the Geneva Conventions monitors die Father of Utah soldier hopes to see end attacks v 1 ii y4V --if ft© vSsiift Sadldlsiinn) “most-want- t ' ' : SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The father of Army Reserve 1 ’ Sgt David J Goldberg 20 iq Iraq last 7 Who month' hopes the capture of ' Saddam Hussein will bring the ' ' end of the conflict Tin taking a approach Some think the attacks will diminish I think 7 the jury is still out but my 7 hope is the attacks wiU diihin- ish" said '"Chuck' Goldberg of Layton Goldberg's km was the fifth Utah mari'to die in the war with Iraq David Goldberg died Nov 26 in Qayyarah '7 J Iraq’ as the result Of a non- -' combat gunshot wound to his right upper chesf The incident" is still under investigation by ' the Army’s Criminal Invests ' ' ' ' Division gatioh Troops froni the Utah : National Guard's 142nd Mili- lary Intelligence Battalion par: : ticipated in the forensic examination of the hole and where the 4th Infantry Divi- sion found Saddam according to the wife of the battalion v ? cpiiiriiander 7 -V Diane Gundersen whose htisband U Col Ed Gunder-v'7 sen commands the 142nd's : Baghdad-base- d operations said herhusbaiid called her ' : Sunday to tell her the good 7 news She was quoted in V v 'k Th ed v tin n BAGHDAD Iraq (AP)— 7: Their exuberance over hiscap- - J"' ft ee ’ - kCWk:U : ' - ' -- ci ! ' “It wg a good - ' ’ : V :7 V : ADWAR Iraq (AP) — The : yard was a mess the laundry ' Wasn’t done the pantry was bare and the orily art on the 7 ' walls was a poster of Noah’s - ' Saddam Hussein’s hideaway at a farmhouse in northern Iraq looked more like a' v ' derelict property abandoned by squatters than one of the lavish palaces he had lived in When the denosed Iraai centto the farmhouse Satur- - : Al-Ra- foryears W ture still fiiesh Iraqi leaders said Monday they want to send Saddam Hussein to a quick trial with ad eye toward executing him by summer But US officials signaled the Iraqis may have to wait: Kofi UN Secretary-Gener- al Annan said the world body would not support bringing Saddam before a tribunal that might Sentence him to death and human rights groups were ' appalled at the rush to a trial said crucial was to they starting a healing process in this war-shattered land 7 Members of the Iraq Governing Council said Monday the trial ' would be televised in the inter estof exposing Saddam’s atrocities and beginning a process of national healingBut some couldn’t hold backjrom declaring the verdict a done deal 7 ‘‘This man has killed hundreds of thousands of people: If lie has to be killed once I think he has to be resurrected huo-dred-s of times and killed again” said council member ' Mouwafak a human limits activist who was impris1 ' oned under Saddam 7 7 7 and other council 7 ihembers met with whal they described as an unrepentant Saddam on Sunday hours after his capture by US troops': ' They said proceedings against the deposed dictator would ' begin soon in an Iraqi special tribunk written into law last 7 Trial ahoad: President Bush smiles as he holds a press con' ference " at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building bn Monday in Wrishington : ed ' 7- v7V- - beginning to intefrogate their of sub- cgptive pn a laundry-li- st jects including the insurgency that has killed hundreds of US troops rind his alleged weapons of mass destruction the main rationale for the US-le- d war j Iran foci said it Ws preparing charges rind expected Saddam 7 to be tried before a “competent international court” 7 Presidoit Bush Said in Wash-ington that details still needed 7 to be worked out before Sad-dacan be handed oyer fo the 7 Iraqis He offered few specifics of how Saddam would be tried — dr when “We will work with Iraqis to develop ri way to 7 try him that will withstand international scrutiny” he said : he was more interested in the trial's scope than in its speed ‘All the atrocities need to' 7 out and justice needs to come The stoiiy of Saddam’s:grenade into Saddarri’s tiriy ' 7 7 be delivered” he said week ' when the arrek was woven of many underground refuge Appearing to contradict earli: “Very soon In the next few fugitive dictator’s hands 7 threadsmany involving Hick-- 7 U S statements that officials : “We said weeks” appeared above ground in sur- - ey and his men: who had been would almost law We the have leavp U 9 Iraqis to work passed render:'' conducting regular raids in y v the details of tKeir special on the most of ait agreed judges “He was assisted out of thfe 7 and around Tikrit looking for V 7 tribunal Strife Department and almost Wb’re prosecutors Saddam since midsummer V hole’' said Hickey Comman- -' ' Richard 1 Boucher there can tell you he’s going spokesman derof the 1st Brigade 4th ! ' Beginiiing then the :7 indicated the US govemment the first” to be -Division and leader Infantry Chicago native's 7 now planned to play a major 7: Council member Adnan of the raid that captured Sadbrigade rousted some of Sad- role in crafting the bourf ' the Pachachi said he expected dam — who was armed with a dam’s relatives in Tikrit Sotne Boucher said the State 7 in “sometime 'trial would begin had been financing the insur-genpistol No shots were fired send Pierre-Richamem- -' council foird A March” : Departmentwould that was just heatirig up Hickey said American its ambas- Noor Dara Kurdish ber Prosper judge forces began last July to ' against the American occu- ednserv-ativsador e war at crime for offered a more large assemble the evidence and " tion Others were active issues to Baghdad early next 7 estiinate: “Maybe four to intelligence that led to Sad-- 7 to work olt setting up a' 7 six year months”’ dam’s weekend capture See HIDEOUT on A12 ' court date But UTS officials were just - - : : a : ld cy rd al-D- in ? v :vV' TniAin - y i Hideout less than palatial V?1" - '' Huwrtnbefor0hwaicaptid name 1$ Saddam Hus- -' day for him dHe sounded excite- she " Se‘nII amt?e said “It was siich a A US Specal Forces sol relief It wp really weighing ' on everybody to riot find (Sad- v ' Ptesiderit Bush’ 7J dam) Asking as he was out The exchange was recountthere k could cause fear iri the ed by Maj Bryan Reed oper7 people’ ations officer for the 1st ' Utah's amgressional'dele-gatio- ri Brigade 4th Infantry Divi: praised the capture ' sion leading reporters on a “I commend our soldiers tour of Saddam's hideaway1 intelligence agents' and oiir Monday two days after the comrnancfor in chief on the L 'raid that led td his capture captiire of this'evil dictator” Col Janies Hickey said spe V said Rep Rob Bishop- who cial forces soldiers were sec- believesit will “openiip the : onds from pitching a hand : "end of our pacification Seri Bob Bennett said the capture has sent :" vv message to those in the Mid- the the rest East and of die world who have doubted America’s resolve” Bennett said President Geoirge W Bush's administra-- lion is committed to staying in 7 Iraq as long as it takes to Mng' ' peace to the region V 7 ' Seri Orriri Hatch said the ' capture was a wonderful Christmas jnesent for the ' United States and Iraq “This is a tremendous yicto-- : 'ry for our military arid our President The Iraqi people are :' now fully headed to free- dom”'hesiud''''--''Rep: Jini Matheson said' : On target: US army Comman- ‘ “While this may not result in " an immediate end to the insur-- - der Col James B Nckey 1st 4th Brigade- - Combat Team gency I see this as an impor'v' Infantry Division of Chicago 111 tant ?tep in pur continuing Tikrit northern Iraq commitment in Iraq We all ' smiles near bn Monday Hickey was the top : want a peaceful outcome in i Officer in charge of the capture pf this country with a govern- Saddam Hussein "ment that is accountable to its ' '" people”Rep Chris Cannon Said “A murderous tyrant was captured and will now face justice in a framework of ah open system of government — a stark con- trasttothe kind of system he imposed on the Iraqi peopled' for tlte last three decades’ 7 “"‘V APpholos Debris litters the kitchen used by Saddam Hussein before he was captured Saturday on a farm near Tlkrit northern Iraq on Monday Below a US: soldier stands in the bedroom that was used by Saddam aa f I Time line unclear M tor Saddam’s trial was-kille- wait-and-s- Iraq according to UTS Army Brig Gen MaritHotUng of the 1st Armored Division US officials are pressing for intelligence on the insurgency that has taken the lives of nearly 200 American sokliere Herding said Monday the questioning of Saddam and documents found oh Mn prominent regime figures: Westphal said while the Geneva Conventions allow captors to interrogate POWs the prisoners do not have to answer questions They are only obliged to give the information famil- ' iar fimn movies —name rank and serial number The neutral Swiss-basagency which prides itself on its discretion has not revealed the details of their : detention It has also never publicly named any of (he senior figures it has r ' visited It has also been allowed to pay visits to the 660 prisoners held at Chian- tanamo Bay a UTS Navy base in Cuba Washington calls those prisoners not rows That “enemy classification has raised criticism from the ICRC because the detainees are ' held without charge or trialSaddam has beenundergoing interrogation in an unknown location in Tf - P-- ' ' list” ed ' - i as (PW 7 11 ' r'-':- - uhoro QariHam rantn ADWAR Iraq (AP) — In the town where Saddam Hussein was captured a 5(Kyear-ol- d ' wmhan named Bahija'Asaad Taha gave voice to die morning-after feeli ng Of grief and letdown “ We have tost a 71 '' father” she said v- -' 7 “I am in mourning” said a 7 weeping Dhahira Sarhan Saddam Hussein is the crown on our heads’’ added a third 7 woman Naziha Awad Only after die first wave of soriow and defiance had ran its course did ri different picture emerge — of recriminations over Saddam’s favoritism-unkeppromises and disap- -- t pointmentthathegaveupwith- - out a fight In the maikete teahouses arid privalehomes ofAdwar the town north of Baghdad where Saddam’s hiding place wait uncovered by US forces Sat- ' unday people said they were uncnlain about the future and feared wse to come Many said guerrilla attacks 7 on U 5 forces would increase while othas maintained they would now dissipate- “There's an end to every- things” said a somber Safa Saber 36 a former air force pilot now a grocer 7' ' 7 He said when he saw Sad-- ' dam on television he became sure die former Iraqi dictator GrmxfOlMip t-- mourns was never behind the resis-- fence' C “Ite didn’t look like someone wlyi was in charge meeting with the resistance and directing “He was hidit! said iri a ditch with not 7 alone all ing even a body guard” Wazir Batan 22 predicted more attacks fueled by disap- - '7 prantment with the Americans“Look at the line” he said pointing to a long line of cars:- 7 outside a gas kation “There is no gasno electricityno oil no security What's there to be : s - vhajjpyaboutr : disheveled They also showed a touch of disappointment at seeing their hero looking aged and 7 ' - hastily added that die captured Saddam in his long gray beard Tand shaggy hair reminded her of Omar the great Ubyian independence fighter “There U no man like him” : late to change your windows this winter? Not if you give us a caHWe can upgrade most homes ' in one dayl ) Too - : MimP— iyrCHLigMTfMc!irw Providence 110 S Hwy'165 Logrin 685 North Maiin: TIRE 7 : There were tumors that iq the event of capture Saddam would take poison blow him-- : self up pr fool theAmcricans : info arresting one of the many douses he reputedly main tained “Everything they said about him turned out wrong” saidTrilha 7 FLAT REPAIR 753-241- 2 ' shesaid 7 :' ' - v “He wris always so elegant" BahijaTaha recalled Then lest she sound too disrespectful she : 1 AUTOMOTIVE 787-184- 4 |