US authorities have given the international Red Cross permission to see Saddam Hussein, the head of the humanitarian organisation said yesterday. "We have had a green light for a visit," said Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross. "However, we don't yet know when it will take place," Kellenberger said in an interview with the daily Tribune de Geneve. Technical arrangements for the visit by aid workers to check on Saddam's treatment in prison were still being made, according to the humanitarian agency. ICRC spokesman Florian Westphal confirmed Kellenber-ger's comments, but said he could not say when US authorities had given the organization permission to see the toppled Iraqi leader. "But we hope to see him as soon as possible," Westphal said. The ICRC requested permission to visit Saddam soon after he was captured and the United States declared him a prisoner of war. The neutral, Swiss-run organisation is entitled to see POWs under the Geneva Conventions on the conduct of war, although the accords do not set a timetable for visits. The ICRC moved many of its international staff out of Iraq following the October 27 bomb attack on its Baghdad headquarters. **PHOTO CAPTION*** Saddam Hussein. (AFP/US Army/File)