"We
have now got to get the father," he said on BBC
television's "Breakfast with Frost" interview
program.
"I
would like to see him brought before a court, but that is in the hands
of the military team looking for him," he said. "I would say
it is quite important to do that."
Greenstock,
59, an Arabic speaker, was appointed in June to be Britain's top envoy
in Iraq and number two to the chief U.S. administrator in the country,
Paul Bremer.
Chalabi,
head of the Iraqi National Congress, told the "Frost"
program: "I think it is much better for the Iraqi people and for
the world for Saddam to be caught alive and put on trial."
"He
has to account for the mass graves of hundreds of thousands of people
and for the wars he waged against Iran, Kuwait and the people of
Kurdistan," he said.
"I
Don't Know. I Don't Know What The Story Is"
Asked
if he was confident that weapons of mass destruction would be found in
Iraq, Greenstock -- a key player during seven months of intense U.N.
Security Council debates on Iraq in the run-up to war -- said: "I
don't know. I don't know what the story is."
"I
personally believe that Saddam was certainly running programs," he
said. "But he decided to destroy and conceal many of his weapons
when he knew (U.N.) inspectors were coming (in the period prior to the
war), in order not to be caught on the wrong side of the political
line."
Meanwhile,
Iraq's transitional Governing Council has called for the bodies of
Saddam Hussein's two sons Uday and Qusay to be given to their family,
council member Samir Shaker Mahmud al-Sudayii said Sunday.
Interviewed
at a meeting of Baghdad's municipal council, al-Sudayii, a Sunni Muslim
entrepreneur, told AFP without elaborating that, if no one claimed the
corpses, "other measures will be taken".
However,
he added that he expected the U.S.-led occupation troops to follow the
executive body's recommendation.
Earlier
in the day, Sheikh Mahmud al-Nada, leader of the Bunasser tribe allied
to Saddam, told the Qatar-based satellite television network Al-Jazeera
that he "had asked for the bodies, but the coalition refused".
"I
put in the request for family and religious reasons, not political
ones," he underlined in the interview.
For
its part, several newspapers published Sunday photos of Uday and Qusay.
The
daily, Azzaman, splashed the photos, taken Friday, July25,
by journalists at the U.S. military morgue at Baghdad airport, on its
front page, with the non-descript headline "photos of Uday and
Qusay, the sons of the deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein shown to
reporters at the airport after the facial reconstruction
operation."
El-Aswaq
carried pictures of the bullet-riddled bodies and gave a detailed
account of the four-hour gun battle in Mosul.
Anxious
to convince a skeptical Iraqi public that Uday and Qusay indeed died in
Mosul, the U.S. military escorted about 15 reporters, photographers and
cameramen to an air-conditioned morgue.
The
military had performed facial reconstruction on the slain brothers,
disguised after more than three months on the run, to prove it was truly
Uday and Qusay.
U.S.
Double Standards
In
Cairo, an Egyptian government newspaper on Sunday accused Washington of
double standards by releasing photographs of Saddam Hussein's dead sons
after denouncing the Iraqis for showing pictures of dead U.S. soldiers.
"The
United States and the Western media moved heaven and earth when Iraqi
television broadcast (images) of the dead bodies and of U.S. prisoners,
in the first days of the U.S.-British aggression against Iraq," Al-Ahram
daily said.
The
newspaper said such actions were a "violation of the Geneva
Convention, but the United States did the same thing, but in a worse
way, by publishing the photographs of the corpses of Uday and
Qusay", the daily said.
"The
official American and Western position on the publication of the photos
of the American dead (in Iraq), then the publication of the photos of
the bodies of Uday and Qusay (...) is an example of double
standards," it said.
The
United States had denounced the broadcast of images of dead Americans
and captured soldiers on Iraqi and Arab television during the first few
days of the war in Iraq in March.
On
Friday, the White House defended its decision to release pictures
showing the corpses of Saddam Hussein's two sons, rejecting comparisons
with Iraq's wartime photos of slain U.S. soldiers and prisoners of war.
"I
think there is a big difference. It is "consistent" with the
Geneva Convention," spokesman Scott McClellan said.
U.S.
officials have said that they released the gory pictures, which claim to
show the corpses of Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, to prove to the Iraqi
people that the two men really were killed in a firefight in northern
Iraq.
