.Saddam to be buried in Iraq
BAGHDAD: Saddam Hussein will be buried in Iraq but the government is not yet ready to say exactly where, an official in the office of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday.
"The body will not go outside Iraq. We cannot announce the place where he will be buried now. But he should certainly be buried," the source said on condition of anonymity.
One of Saddam's lawyers earlier told Sky News that the corpse would be transferred outside Iraq following his execution for crimes against humanity. Speaking in English via telephone, Najeeb al-Nuaimi said it should be up to the toppled president's family to decide where the body should be taken.
On 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," the heavily fortified main government compound in central Baghdad.
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"The body will not go outside Iraq. We cannot announce the place where he will be buried now. But he should certainly be buried," the source said on condition of anonymity.
One of Saddam's lawyers earlier told Sky News that the corpse would be transferred outside Iraq following his execution for crimes against humanity. Speaking in English via telephone, Najeeb al-Nuaimi said it should be up to the toppled president's family to decide where the body should be taken.
On 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," the heavily fortified main government compound in central Baghdad.
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