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Saddam won't be buried in Iraq
30/12/2006 08:17 - (SA)
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Iraqis watch the news on television announcing that ousted dictator Saddam Hussein was hanged on 30 December 2006 in Baghdad. (Ali Yussef, AFP)
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London - Saddam Hussein's corpse was to be transferred outside of Iraq following his execution on Saturday for crimes against humanity, the ousted tyrant's lawyer Najeeb al-Nuaimi told Sky News television.
Speaking in English via telephone, Nuaimi said it was down to the toppled president's family where the body would be taken for burial.
Asked what would happen to the body, Nuaimi said: "We are requesting that they have to be handed over to us, and we will transfer the bodies outside Baghdad, outside Iraq.
"We have requested to have the bodies transferred outside, handed over to us. We have one of our colleagues who is actually waiting there in the green zone."
Saddam, 69, was hanged to death on Saturday in Baghdad for crimes against humanity for the killing of 148 men and boys in the Shi'ite village of Dujail in 1982 after an attempt was made there to assassinate him.
Officials initially said two co-defendants, Saddam's half brother and intelligence chief Barzan Hassan al-Tikriti and revolutionary court judge Awad Ahmed al-Bandar, had also been hanged, but later said they would be executed after the Eid al-Adha holiday, which ends on Thursday.
Pressed on reports that Saddam's body would be taken to his home town of Tikrit to be buried there, Nuaimi said that was not his understanding.
"My understanding is that we want them to deliver the bodies and the families will determine the destination of these bodies where they have to be buried," he said.
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