THE British government has seen "categoric" evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction ahead of the war to unseat Saddam Hussein, one of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's top ministers insisted today.

"Saddam is in Iraq now and, yes, he will be tried publicly by a special Iraqi court when the prerequisites for setting up such a court are completed," Mr Bremer told the Arabic-language daily Asharq Al-Awsat.
"Saddam will be handed over to the Governing Council after it finishes setting up the court." Asked if Hussein was co-operating with investigators, Mr Bremer replied: "He is not co-operating but he is not a troublemaker either.
"He has not given us any important or useful information up to now and has not confessed to the whereabouts of his offshore funds, but we know for sure that he has a lot of money outside Iraq."
ICRC spokeswoman Nada Doumani said last week Hussein could not be tried in Iraq until the country regained its sovereignty, due to Geneva Conventions restrictions.

THE US has used information gained during interrogations of Saddam Hussein to help round up insurgents and identify false leads, a senior military official said today.

It has been pointed out that it is inconsistent for Hutton to be happy with Blair's reliance on one uncorroborated source for the 45 minute claim, when he comes down on the BBC like a ton of bricks when Gilligan relied on one uncorroborated source in his reporting.

A second leaked document prepared by the BBC for Hutton also reveals crucial details of why executives stood by its controversial Today report, detailing a lunch between the head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, and Kevin Marsh, the editor of the Today programme. In a witness statement prepared by Marsh and BBC legal representatives, it is claimed that Dearlove suggested that 'hard evidence of WMD in Iraq would never be found'.

During proceedings in the rape case Monday before the prosecutor and defense attorney, Stephenson looked at a photograph of the battered victim and said, "Why would he want to rape her? She doesn't look like a day at the beach," according to a transcript reviewed by the Orlando Sentinel.