"The report has as much validity as the report by the CIA director about the alleged existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq," he said referring to the report by Paul Volcker, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve.
'Saddam is looking for his honour, revenge and prestige. If need be he will die like Hitler in a bunker,' says Lt Gen [retd] Kirpal Singh Randhawa, who trained Iraqi officers in the 1970s.
'Legal custody and physical custody can be two separate things," he added,' Bremer said.
Rights activists deplore absence of international jurists on panel to try Saddam.
CIA Director George Tenet has named Charles Duelfer to succeed David Kay to lead the search for WMD in Iraq.
Police Lieutenant Sha'alan Allawi said the bomber might have driven a vehicle loaded with explosives into a parking lot inside the building.
In an interview to the tabloid The Sun from his cell, the once feared ruler of Iraq described how he looked for his motorbike to flee from the clutches of the US combat forces just minutes before they surrounded him.
India is negotiating a term contract with the new administration in Baghdad to import Iraqi crude even as it hopes to keep the exploration acreage awarded to it by the Saddam Hussein regime.
But Bush administration officials said the war would continue.
The first glimpse of Saddam Hussein's life in prison was provided in London's The Guardian newspaper on Monday.
US officials believe Saddam's cousins can tap into tens of millions of dollars, much of it profits from smuggling oil, military equipment and other goods during Saddam's regime.
The only real issue left was whether Saddam had decided to give up these horrible weapons of mass destruction, he said.
I have personally talked to the president if we had a clear shot to assassinate him, we would probably do that, Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald told Chicago's Daily Herald.
The pistol was seized from Hussein when he was captured near Tikrit last December. Some troops who caught the deposed president gifted it to Bush.
The gravest danger facing America and the world is outlaw regimes that seek weapons of mass destruction, the US president said in his State of the Union address.
The US defence secretary would not say how large a force the Pentagon was assembling in the Gulf region or provide details on military units slated for deployment.
If confirmed by the senate, John Negroponte would head what might become the largest US embassy in the world in terms of manpower.
Head of Jordan's Bar Association Hussein Mjalli said volunteers had signed up at the their offices in Amman.
Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan was number 36 on the US list of most wanted officials of the Saddam regime in Iraq.
Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal had trained him at the instance of Saddam Hussein, a media report said.
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