Iraqi Defence Minister Hazem al-Shaalan said that former...

Iraqi Defence Minister Hazem al-Shaalan said that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein should be sentenced to death for his crimes. Shaalan said in an interview with the Kuwaiti daily Al-Anbaa that keeping Saddam alive was "very uncomforting for the victims of his crimes." "Saddam should die, this is an unavoidable sentence," he said, referring to the trial of the former Iraqi leader who was ousted in a US-led military invasion last year. "Everything around him speaks of crimes that he had even taught to his children," he said in reference to Saddam's sons, Uday and Qusay, who were killed by US troops in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in 2003.