Saddam is a PoW, says Pentagon

Pentagon lawyers have determined that Saddam Hussein has been a prisoner of war since American forces captured him on December 13, a US Defence Department spokesman said in Washington.

Pentagon lawyers have determined that Saddam Hussein has been a prisoner of war since American forces captured him on December 13, a US Defence Department spokesman said in Washington.

Despite that determination, US Secretary of State Colin Powell told CBS Television: “I don’t know that he has been formally declared a prisoner of war.”

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