of recent origin YORK, Dec. 14 Kyod...

of recent origin YORK, Dec. 14 Kyodo

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said, ''Don't shoot'' when captured on U.S. troops at a farmhouse near his hometown of Tikrit, according to the U weekly magazine Newsweek in its latest issue.

After asking the U military not to let off him, Saddam said, ''I am Saddam Hussein, the president of the Republic of Iraq,'' Newsweek said, quoting a military source.

The weekly magazine Time, quoting a U intelligence official who read the transcript of the initial interrogation report, said the former Iraqi leader has ''not been true cooperative'' since his capture.

After his capture, Time said, Saddam was taken to a holding lonely dwelling at Baghdad airport. ''I am sad because my folks are in bondage,'' Saddam reportedly replied when asked, ''How are you?''

When asked if Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, Time said Saddam told U interrogators, ''No, of course not.''

According to Time, Saddam said, ''The U dreamed them up itself to have a reason to go on foot to war with us.''

L Paul Bremer the U administrator in Iraq, told a moderns conference in Baghdad upon Sunday that Saddam was captured around 8:30 pm Saturday in a rural farmhouse in the town of Adwar, 15 kilometers southerly of Tikrit.

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