BAGHDAD, Dec 17 Kyodo The U milit...

BAGHDAD, Dec 17 Kyodo

The U military is still holding captured former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the Baghdad area, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council said Wednesday.

Council member Mouwafak al-Rubaie told a pres conversation that Saddam, who was captured at the weekend, remains imprisoned in the greater Baghdad area, denying reports that he had been taken not at home of the country to Qatar.

He said he possibility of goods to see Saddam tried in public by way of an Iraqi court.

At the same pres discourse members of the U.S.-backed council issued a statement calling upon Iraqis to rebuild national unity in the ''spirit of forgiveness.''

on the other hand it said Saddam, his followers and foreign ''terrorists'' would face trial as war criminals.

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