If it's already on "the street" that he's been handed over, my guess is he's already dead.
it would be justice in arabia to turn him over to the masses. its a cultural celebration to publically kill the former leader and drag the body and its parts through the center of town.
He's dead Jim.
Seems like a good bet, but not a certainty. Still my understanding was that the handover was to be immediately preceding the execution, not more than an hour or three. He was not being moved, just administratively transferred to Iraqi custody, but in the same facility, which is also the same one containing the "just for him" gallows.
That's not a bad guess, given how they have done similar things in the past to keep the enemy off guard. Like the transfer of sovreignty that took place 3 days early, for instance.
They may be in the editing room, spooling up the laugh track for Saddam's video as we speak.