Well you had to figure after the flush of “We GOT Him” that they would eventually be hard-pressed to figure out what to do with him. You don’t want him saying anything, after all…this story goes on to say that the Al Qaeda link is Zirqawi, the apocryphal ‘one-legged man’ of Nick Berg fame, except the US claimed to have killed him in MARCH. O well…

the guardian
Oliver Burkeman in Washington
Wednesday June 16, 2004

The United States and the new Iraqi government were mired in disagreement last night over the fate of Saddam Hussein after George Bush said Iraqi demands for immediate custody of the former dictator could not be met until it was certain the new regime had the ability to keep him in jail.

Mr Bush also jumped to the defence of his vice-president, Dick Cheney, who insisted, despite the deep scepticism of the intelligence community, that Saddam had had close links to al-Qaida.
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