Have you been wondering what is happening with Saddam?

Aside from having his name used to justify the killing in Iraq, I mean?

I'm losing something in the translation here, but....

The Saudi al Watan: Saddam Hussein's health deteriorating
Iraq-USA, Politics, 1/30/2004

The Saudi Arabian daily al-Watan said yesterday that health of the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is deteriorating, and that he suffers a disease in his stomach that makes him unable to take food he used to eat.

The paper added quoting a high ranking European source as saying that "a medical team is making analysis on a sample from his stomach and that Saddam started to stop eating the quantity and kinds of food he used to eat since his capture."

The source, on the other hand, stressed that " one Arab country " several days ago proposed to Washington to finalize ( a deal) concerning Saddam including transporting Saddam to one of its prisons and to be treated later as a political detainees, and this will be for this country to disclose financial lists on accounts for Saddam and other Arab states in it, and to give all these money to the American administration." The deal also includes "giving the US new oil contracts from this country and to give continued reports on Saddam and his contacts."

The source stressed that "this Arab country is considered now among the countries which is rebuilding its relations with American by being loyal to Washington over dangerous files like those on fighting terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and intelligence cooperation."

The official said that this Arab state will be considered, if the US approves this deal, as able to restore improvement in its relations with the Arab states which oppose strongly the detention of Saddam the way it had happened, and treating a head of an Arab state in a humiliating way as well as calming the Arab public.  Arabic News article

Uhhhhhhhnnnnnnnnn....

"to disclose financial lists on accounts for Saddam and other Arab states in it, and to give all these money to the American administration."

I understand the part about giving "all these money to the American administration". Maybe that's all I need to understand.

Could "this Arab state" be Libya? I seem to recall a pre-war deal that fell through which would have seen Libya take Saddam into exile.

Hmmm.

And, is his health poor or good? I don't know.

Occupation: Saddam Hussein does not collaborate, wanted are 12
Iraq-USA, Politics, 2/11/2004

The American occupation authorities said yesterday that Saddam Hussein who is held by the USA is in a good health condition and non- collaborative with the American investigators.

A spokesman for the American forces said that "Saddam Hussein was recently subjected to comprehensive medical tests that proved that he is in a good health condition and does not suffer diseases." He added "investigations with the former President still continuous. Saddam is still not collaborating with the American investigators and he obstructs the process of investigation with them.

In this regard, the occupation forces announced the surrender of Mohsin Khuder al-Khafaji, number 48 on the black list put by Washington. But it added it still searches for 12 out of 55 former officials. The most important among them is the Iraqi vice President Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri.  Arabic News article

And there you have your info on al-Douri, as well.

Well, I'm sorry! But the American media seem to have forgotten about Saddam. And they only throw out the al-Douri bit whenever they've got some other "high value target". You know what I think about it already.

But you believe what you want...you will anyway.

Tracking Saddam info here.