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NEW YORK - Saddam Hussein told aides in the mid-1990s that he warned the United States it could be hit by a terrorist attack, ABC News reported Wednesday, citing 12 hours of tapes the network obtained of the former Iraqi dictator's talks with his Cabinet. One of Saddam's son-in-laws also explained how Iraq hid its biological weapons programs from U.N. inspectors, according to the tapes from August 1995. The coming terrorist attack Saddam predicted could involve weapons of mass destruction. "Terrorism is coming. I told the Americans," Saddam is heard saying, adding he "told the British as well." "In the...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Interior Minister Bayan Jabr was defiant Thursday when answering questions about allegations his officers have tortured suspected insurgents, saying the reports have been exaggerated and insisting only five people appeared to have been maltreated. He said that a number of those detained were suspected foreign terrorists, including one man accused of building six car bombs. "These are the most criminal terrorists who were in these cells," Jabr said. He said he personally instructed that these particular suspects be taken to the detention center in Jadiriyah because they were considered the most dangerous. He said that an investigation...

AMMAN (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's family scrapped the international team of attorneys claiming to be representing him on Monday and will pick a new set of heavyweight lawyers to defend him against war crimes charges, the family's lawyer said. "There are too many people in the world who are claiming they are defending the president without the family's knowledge and we don't know who authorized them," said Abdel Haq Alani, the legal consultant of Raghd, Saddam's eldest daughter who is authorized to act on behalf of the ousted leader's family. He told Reuters Saddam's family had revoked any right of...

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AMMAN (AFP) - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said that it was not yet possible to set a date for the withdrawal of US-led forces from his country. He also reiterated that he would not personally sign a death warrant for ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who is in US custody awaiting trial on charges of crimes against humanity. "It is virtually impossible to demand the withdrawal of allied forces from Iraq. We will do so when the Iraqi army is established," Talabani said Monday in an interview published by Jordanian newspapers Al-Rai and Al-Ghad. "Iraq is not occupied, but there...