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BOMBAY: Writer Arundhati Roy, who wants an ongoing anti-globalisation conference to launch a campaign to shut down US companies, said Sunday she hoped President George W Bush would share the fate of the captured Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. "If Saddam Hussein deserves to be humiliated and have his fillings counted and his hair checked for lice on primetime TV, then so does George Bush," Roy told about 100 people at a leftist convention on the sidelines of the World Social Forum. "Saddam Hussein surely ought to be tried for crimes against humanity. But so should all his accomplices in the...

Roy hopes Saddam's fate for Bush AFP[ SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2004 02:55:18 PM ] Social activist Shabana Azmi, left, speaks as freedom fighter Lakshmi Sehgal, and writer Arundathi Roy, right, look on at the opening ceremony of the World Social Forum in Bombay on Friday. (AP Photo) BOMBAY: Writer Arundhati Roy, who wants an ongoing anti-globalisation conference to launch a campaign to shut down US companies, said Sunday she hoped President George W Bush would share the fate of the captured Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. "If Saddam Hussein deserves to be humiliated and have his fillings counted and his...