fate of American friends

Kadhafi warns US allies could suffer Saddam's fate

DAMASCUS (AFP) - Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi warned Arab allies of
the
United States that they could meet the same fate as former Iraq
president
Saddam Hussein, hanged in 2006 three years after the US-led invasion.

"A foreign force occupied an Arab country and hanged its president and
we
stood by and watched," he told an Arab summit in the Syrian capital.

Saddam was hanged in December 2006 after being sentenced to death for
crimes
against humanity over the mass killing of ****ites in the 1980s.

"How can they execute a prisoner of war and the president of a member
of the
Arab League?" Kadhafi asked.

He said Saddam had been a friend of the United States during the Iran-
Iraq
war in the 1980s "before they turned against him and executed him."

"You could all suffer the same fate," he warned.

"Even you, even we, who are considered friends of America, one day
(America)
can give the green light for our own hanging," said the Libyan leader
whose
country resumed ties with the United States in 2004 after a 23-year
break.