Deposed dictator ‘is being treated like a king’ in American custody

SADDAM HUSSEIN is living “like a king” in US military custody, an adviser to the Iraqi interim prime minister claims.

Deposed dictator ‘is being treated like a king’ in American custody

George Sada, an air force officer under Saddam, told the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas that the former Iraqi dictator’s “house was centrally air conditioned” and he was reading newspapers and watching television.

“They prepare two kinds of food for him every day, Eastern and Western ... and he eats what he chooses,” Mr Sada said in Baghdad.

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