US seals Saddam's final hiding place

Meanwhile, the international Red Cross said Saturday that US authorities have given the organization permission to see Saddam, but no date has been set.

The ICRC requested permission to visit Saddam soon after he was captured on Dec. 13 and the United States declared him a prisoner of war.

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"We have had a green light for a visit," Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a newspaper interview. "However, we don't yet know when it will take place."

Kellenberger's comments were published Saturday in the daily Tribune de Geneve.