NOW WHAT ARE WE TO MAKE OF THIS:?

Excuse me how many dead Americans, Coalition, and Iraqi

Have we, If there is anything to this

Rumsfeld offered Saddam freedom

- Report5/1/2005 3:18:00 PM GMT

The U.S. Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld paid a secret visit to former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and offered him freedom and a possible return to public life if he made a televised request to rebel groups for a ceasefire with allied forces, a media report said.

Quoting from the London based Arab daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Ynetnews reported that Saddam promptly rejected the offer.

The visit to Saddam occurred when Rumsfeld paid a ‘surprise’ visit to Iraq some two weeks ago and was known only to a few Iraqi officials in Jordan, the Arab daily reported quoting sources.
Some two week

Some two weeks ago the British paper The Daily Telegraph reported that Iraqi gunmen were offered a "deal" to halt all attacks in return for a reduced sentence for Saddam, likely to be sentenced to death.

However, an Iraqi government official is said to believe that Saddam's Baath party will request to return to politics, the report said.

http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=8026