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London: Hidden in the suburbs of Baghdad and talking to US officials via middlemen, Saddam Hussein's son Udai is negotiating a surrender.

Though Udai, 40, wants to know the process for his interrogation, US negotiators are refusing to cut a deal, because they are convinced they will find him before long, reveals the 'Wall Street Journal'.

"I would facilitate his coming on in. But it would be unconditional. We're searching for everybody on the blacklist, including Saddam's family," says lieutenant general David McKiernan, commander of US ground forces in Iraq.

Saddam is also hiding in the Baghdad suburbs but is in "questionable mental health", his relatives told US agents.

Udai ranks third on the allied list of most wanted Iraqi fugitives after his father and younger brother Qusai. And he is the ace of hearts in the 'Deck of Death' pack of cards listing the top 55 hunted officials, says a report in 'The Sun'.

A source said he wanted to surrender because he feared Iraqi citizens would lynch him and will be safer in a US jail. He revealed Udai – notoriously paranoid and violent – keeps changing his mind over whether to hand himself in. And as the source added, "He doesn't have good choices."

ANI