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US allows Saddam POW rights

The United States promised that the captured former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein will be accorded privileges stemming from the Geneva Conventions.

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The United States promised that the captured former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein will be accorded privileges stemming from the Geneva Conventions.

US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the issue of Saddam's future will be determined in consultations with US coalition partners.

But he stopped short of saying the ousted leader, who has been eluding US troops for nine months, will be granted formal prisoner of war status.

Saddam put up no resistance when American troops raided a farmhouse and discovered him in a cellar near his home town of Tikrit.

US official said their priority at the moment is to get as much information from the former Iraqi leader as quickly as possible.

Earlier Rumsfeld told CBS's "60 Minutes" program that Saddam has not been cooperative in terms of talking or anything like that.

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