LONDON (AFP) ??” Depos Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is being held at a US military base in Qatar.

LONDON (AFP) ??” Depos Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is being held at a US military base in Qatar, rather than in Iraq.

Following his capture by the agency of US forces in December last year, Saddam was first mov to a US aircraft carrier in the swallowing eddy for interrogation, a British newspaper reported, without citing its sources.

He was then -- at a time not specified by way of the report -- transferred to Qatar below great secrecy, with even the state's royal family not informed of his nearness

Major violence in Iraq across recent days which has