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09-07-2005, 01:48 AM
The Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's president said today that Saddam Hussein had confessed to "crimes" committed during his regime, including killings.
President Jalal Talabani told Iraqi television that he had been informed by an investigating judge that "he was able to extract confessions from Saddam's mouth" about crimes "such as executions" which the ousted leader had personally ordered.
Talabani said some of the confessions involved cases actively under investigation, but he did not specify which ones. Saddam faces his first trial Oct. 19 for his alleged role in the massacre of Shiites in Dujail, a town north of Baghdad in 1982.
Saddam could face the death penalty if convicted in the Dujail case.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's president said today that Saddam Hussein had confessed to "crimes" committed during his regime, including killings.
President Jalal Talabani told Iraqi television that he had been informed by an investigating judge that "he was able to extract confessions from Saddam's mouth" about crimes "such as executions" which the ousted leader had personally ordered.
Talabani said some of the confessions involved cases actively under investigation, but he did not specify which ones. Saddam faces his first trial Oct. 19 for his alleged role in the massacre of Shiites in Dujail, a town north of Baghdad in 1982.
Saddam could face the death penalty if convicted in the Dujail case.