Saddam being held in Qatar: report
Tue Apr 6, 7:19 PM ET Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo!

LONDON (AFP) - Deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) is
being held at a US military base in Qatar, rather than in Iraq (news - web
sites).

Following his capture by US forces in December last year, Saddam was first
moved to a US aircraft carrier in the Gulf for interrogation, a British
newspaper reported, without citing its sources.

He was then -- at a time not specified by the report -- transferred to Qatar
under great secrecy, with even the state's royal family not informed of his
presence.

Major violence in Iraq over recent days which has seen more than 100 Iraqis
killed as well as 20 coalition troops, meant Qatar was now seen as a far safer
place to keep the ousted leader, the paper added.