'Take Saddam alive', says new Iraq envoy

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein should be brought to trial for his crimes, not killed like his sons Uday and Qusay, the man appointed as Britain’s new envoy to Iraq said today.

The call from Sir Jeremy Greenstock – who quits his role as UN ambassador to take up the Baghdad posting in September – was backed by a prominent member of the new Iraqi Governing Council, Ahmed Chalabi.