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US declines comment on dialogue with Red Cross over Saddam
Khaleej Times, (AFP)
31 December 2003
BAGHDAD - The US-led coalition in Iraq declined to comment on Wednesday on its “continuing dialogue” with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which has requested access to Saddam Hussein.
Coalition forces “won’t publicly comment on its continuing dialogue with the ICRC,” said a spokesman for the coalition.
“Saddam Hussein is being treated in a manner consistent with the Geneva Conventions,” said the spokesman, who declined to be named.
ICRC spokesman Florian Westphal said in Geneva on Tuesday that the agency had asked for access to the former president since his capture by US forces on December 13.
“We have been in contact with the Americans regularly concerning prisoners of war and other detainees in Iraq and in the course of this contact we have also talked about Saddam Hussein,” he told AFP.
“Saddam Hussein, as somebody protected by the Geneva Conventions, has a right to ICRC visits.”
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