London: British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon on April 13 expressed confidence that
Saddam Hussein, Iraq's leader before the collapse of his regime this past week, will
be found dead or alive.
"It is certainly a dangerous area to speculate on, given the events of the past few
weeks, but I am still confident that either he or his remains will be found," Hoon
said on BBC radio.
"Determined efforts are being made to track him down and to bring to justice those
leading elements of the regime who perpetrated such horrors for the Iraqi people
over so many years."
He said the US-led coalition was hopeful that it could get useful information out of
Amir al-Saadi, Saddam's chief scientific adviser, who surrendered to US forces in
Baghdad on April 12.
"We are hoping to get some useful information out of him and indeed out of others as
increasingly we take more territory and identify those individuals who should have
useful information about the (alleged) weapons (of mass destruction) programmes," he
said.
