Saddam: Insurgents will 'drive out foreigners'

Gunmen killed the brother of the chief prosecutor in Saddam Hussein’s Kurdish genocide trial today, even as the ex-president called in an open letter for insurgents to forgive their American enemies and for Iraqis to forgive each other and stop sectarian killings.

In the letter, Saddam declared Iraq’s “liberation is at hand” – an apparent effort to cast himself as a statesman as Iraq plunges further into civil war and the United States weighs what to do next.