Saddam may escape noose in deal to halt insurgency

[farquar]

Saddam Hussein could avoid the gallows under a secret proposal by insurgent leaders that Iraq's new administration is "seriously considering", a senior government source said yesterday.

A reprieve is understood to be among the central demands of Sunni nationalists and former members of Saddam's Ba'ath party who have reportedly begun negotiations with the government amid the backdrop of a bloody insurgency which claimed 30 lives during the weekend. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/11/wirq11.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/04/11/ixnewstop.html

[Lux]

"We are trying to reach out to the insurgents," the source said. "We don't expect them to stop fighting unconditionally. Sending Saddam to prison for the rest of his life is not a huge price for us to pay, but it will save them a lot of face."

If it means peace, then I hope they would consider it. Even so, I respect the desires of many in Iraq to see him executed for all the evil he has brought to this region of the world.