Saddam letter urges Iraqis to attack US troops

SADDAM HUSSEIN has told his countrymen Iraq’s “liberation is at hand” and called on insurgents to be merciful with their enemy, according to an open letter obtained Monday.

The verdict and possible sentences against Saddam and seven co-defendants in the Dujail genocide case will be handed down on November 5, the chief investigating judge Raid Juhi said Monday.

In the three-page letter, dictated to his lawyers, Saddam also urges Iraqis to set aside sectarian and ethnic differences and focus instead on driving the US forces out of Iraq.