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KUWAIT CITY, NOV. 23. The former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, is living like a king in U.S. military custody in Iraq, an adviser to the Iraqi interim Prime Minister told a Kuwaiti daily in an interview published on Tuesday. George Sada, an air force officer under Mr. Hussein, told the independent Al-Qabas daily that the latter's ``house was centrally air conditioned'' and he was reading newspapers and watching television. ``They prepare two kinds of food for him every day, Eastern and Western ... and he eats what he chooses,'' Mr. Sada said in the interview conducted a week ago in Baghdad. It is being published in a series. Mr. Hussein's menu includes Qouzi, which is sheep stuffed with rice, and Masqouf, Iraqi-style grilled fish, Mr. Sada said, adding that the former leader was living ``like any king, better than the way he lived at the Republican Palace.'' Mr. Sada declined to say where Mr. Hussein was being held. He is believed to be detained in an American-guarded facility near Baghdad Airport. Mr. Hussein faces trial on at least seven charges, including killing rival politicians, gassing the Kurds in 1988, invading Kuwait in 1990 and suppressing Kurdish and Shia uprisings in 1991. No date for the tribunal has been announced. Mr. Sada said Mr. Hussein's top aides in U.S. detention were also living very well. AP
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