Saddam confessed to killings, claims Iraqi president

Iraq’s president said Saddam Hussein had confessed to killings and other “crimes” committed during his regime, including the massacre of thousands of Kurds in the late 1980s, and should be executed many times over.

Yesterday evening, Talabani told Iraqi television that an investigating judge “was able to extract confessions from Saddam’s mouth” about numerous executions he had allegedly personally ordered during his 24 years in power.