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Hasan Suroor
LONDON: : The Sun newspaper is facing threat of legal action for $ 1 million for publishing photographs showing the former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, in "degrading'' circumstances in his prison cell, said to be "somewhere near Baghdad''. Even as Mr. Hussein's defence lawyers threatened to sue the tabloid, and U.S. President George W. Bush joined in the condemnation, a defiant Sun published more photographs on Saturday describing them as "fantastic'' and "iconic'' news pictures. "I defy any newspaper, magazine or television station who were presented with them not to have published,'' its managing editor Graham Dudman said. He insisted that the photographs did not show Mr. Hussein being mistreated. "He's not mistreated. He's washing his trousers... ..Please don't ask us to feel sorry for him,'' he added.
Investigation
American military authorities claimed that the pictures, in which Mr. Hussein is seen stripped to his waist and washing his own clothes, were in breach of the Geneva Convention on prisoners' rights. They said they planned to launch an investigation into how the photographs got out. Arab commentators feared that the photographs were likely to inflame passions among Mr. Hussein's supporters and further fuel the anti-U.S. mood which last week erupted into riots in many Muslim countries following a Newsweek report (since retracted) alleging desecration of Koran by U.S. soldiers in Guantanamo Bay. Ziyad Khasawneh, a senior member of Mr. Hussein's defence team, was quoted as saying that it had decided to sue The Sun as well as those who might have given it the photographs. "Publishing these pictures... is a devaluation of the dignity of human rights and against the Geneva Convention and international law,'' he said. The Sun said it was ready to face any legal action and published photographs of several other high-profile members of the Saddam regime, now in prison, including that of "Chemical Ali''.
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