Geneva - The Red Cross has visited imprisoned officials of Saddam Hussein's toppled regime and expressed confidence that US 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," Nada Doumani, speaking for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said on Wednesday. The ICRC requested permission to visit Saddam soon after he was captured on December 13 and the United States declared him a prisoner of war.
US officials refused to comment on anything related to Saddam's interrogation and referred questions to the Red Cross.
Doumani said that the neutral, Swiss-run ICRC had seen most if not all of the 43 other high-ranking Iraqis captured by coalition forces.
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