Mrs Saddam says Saddam is not Saddam: "Well, you could have heard a pin drop all the way across Qatar. Sajida arrived from Syria with her official escort Sheikh Hamad Al-Tani, and then entered the prison, emerging only moments later pink with rage and shouting, 'This is not my husband but his double. Where is my husband? Take me to my husband'.
American officials rushed forward to shield Mrs Saddam from perplexed Russian observers, trying to insist that Saddam had changed a lot while in custody and she probably didn't recognise him. This was certainly not the best way to handle the Iraqi President's wife. 'You think I do not know my husband?' Sajida shouted furiously, 'I was married to the man for more than twenty-five years!' Then she stormed off, never to return."