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Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein confessed to ordering executions and a campaign against Kurds in the north in which thousands of people are said to have been killed, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said.

But Talabani did not say whether Saddam had actually admitted to committing any crimes or merely acknowledged that he was head of state and commander in chief of the army at the time of various military operations.

“I met the investigator who questioned Saddam,” he told Iraqiya state television in an interview late on Tuesday. “He said he had extracted important confessions from Saddam Hussein and he signed them.”

Source: Reuters.