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web page U.S. ALLOWS SADDAM ENVOY TO CONDUCT EXILE MISSION
ABU DHABI [MENL] -- The United States has approved an Arab effort to convince President Saddam Hussein to enter exile.
The Bush administration has agreed to consider an Arab proposal for immunity from war crimes prosecution for Saddam, his aides and their families in return for their exile. The agreement was said to have represented a reversal of the administration's position last week.
Arab diplomatic sources said the Bush administration's new position has opened the way for a visit by an envoy of Saddam to Cairo to discuss the exile proposal. The sources said former Iraqi minister Ali Majid Hassan, who is also Saddam's cousin, is expected to arrive in Egypt over the next 48 hours.
Majid was to have arrived in Cairo on Saturday to deliver a message from Saddam on an Arab proposal that he enter exile as a means to avoid a U.S.-led war against Iraq. But the United States had warned that Majid was a war criminal and could be subject to arrest and prosecution.
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