World News 15-04-2005 who: Saddam Hussein what: May escape execution, says government insider where: Iraq when: This week snippet: "A reprieve is understood to be among the central demands of Sunni nationalists and former members of Saddam`s Ba`ath party," reports Monday`s Telegraph, "who have reportedly begun negotiations with the government amid the backdrop of a bloody insurgency which claimed 30 lives during the weekend." The violence continued on Thursday when 15 people died and about 20 were wounded in two suicide car bombings during rush hour in Baghdad. Meanwhile, kidnappers have released a video showing US contractor Jeffrey Ake, who was abducted in Baghdad on Monday, begging for his life; and Britain`s foreign secretary Jack Straw has "Britain is likely to begin withdrawing its troops from Iraq next year," according to Thursday`s Financial Times. [... more]

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