Saddam "Prefers to be Shot by Firing Squad"

World | January 3, 2006, Tuesday // 00:00

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has told his lawyers that he wants to be shot by firing squad, not hanged, if sentenced to death during his murder trial, the Washington Times reported. The trial will be resumed later this month in Baghdad. "I'm not afraid of death. Of course I'm not guilty, but I know they want me dead," the Washington Times cited Hussein as telling his lawyers. According to the article one of his lawyers, Issam Ghazzawi, and former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark met with Saddam on December 7 in a basement room under the heavily guarded courthouse in Baghdad.

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