Saddam Hussein ‘confessed’ to ordering executions

OUSTED Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein “confessed” to ordering executions and a campaign against Kurds in which thousands of people are said to have been killed, President Jalal Talabani said yesterday.

But Talabani did not say whether Saddam had actually admitted to committing any crimes or merely acknowledged that he was head of state and commander in chief of the army at the time of various military operations. “I met the investigator who questioned Saddam,” he told Iraqiya state television late on Tuesday.

“He said he had extracted important confessions from Saddam Hussein and he signed them.”