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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (43424)	12/16/2003 6:50:00 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Saddam's Sister Says U.S. Forces Drugged Him. let me see: Six hundred US military men against a guy inside a hole? And they have to throw in gas to knock him out inside the hole before getting him out? Looks like starving Iraq to death for ten years before invading. Saddam's Sister Says U.S. Forces Drugged Him Mon December 15, 2003 03:39 PM ET DUBAI (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's sister said on Monday her brother would never have surrendered meekly and that U.S. forces must have used drugs or gas to paralyze him. "Saddam Hussein, hero of Arabs, would never surrender like this. He must have been subjected to drugs or nerve gas to paralyze him, for he is not one to surrender in this humiliating manner," Nawal Ibrahim al-Hasan told London-based newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi by telephone from an unidentified Arab capital. The 66-year-old former Iraqi dictator was caught on Saturday in a pit hideout near his northern Iraqi home town of Tikrit without firing a shot. A grubby Saddam was later shown by video submitting to medical exams at the hands of U.S. soldiers. "Is it possible for a president to be humiliated like this and for the Americans to comb through his hair for nits?" al-Hasan said in the interview, to be published in the Arabic-language daily's Tuesday edition. "This is not the Saddam Hussein we know. He must have been drugged or injected with illegal chemicals. What happened is an insult to all Arabs and Muslims," the paper quoted her as saying as she wept. Al-Hasan said Arab leaders should ensure that her brother had a fair trial in an international court and not in Iraq. The U.S.-backed Iraqi Governing Council said Saddam would go on trial facing a possible death penalty for his three decades of ruthless rule. President Bush said it was up to Iraqis to decide his fate provided the court hearing was fair. "Saddam Hussein was a desert fighter resisting the occupation of his country, and therefore Arabs and Iraqis must ...defend him and guarantee that he is treated well and tried fairly," al-Hasan said. "The Iraqi resistance to occupation will continue and will escalate after his arrest because resistance is the only way and there can be no cooperation with occupation and occupying powers," she added. Al-Hasan said her husband Arshad Yassin, one of Saddam's special bodyguards, had also been arrested by U.S. forces. © Reuters 2003. All Rights Reserved.