SADDAM HUSSEIN CAPTURE PHOTO TRIAL

be patient for that? It will be sad if Saddam is summarily tried and executed in no time. “But when will that happen? Will the U.S. “Saddam must be tried by a sovereign Iraq, an Iraq that has evolved democratically to have an independent judiciary,” he writes. Blog Tomaat gives his reasons for thinking the proceedings a farce: “American have appointed all the judges,” and besides, the 20-minute delay of the live broadcast must be “to prevent it that Saddam could say things that may not be so good for the Americans, such as the fact that they actively supported Saddam’s regime for years.”Īlong these lines, Pradeep at Time and Tide wonders whether Iraq is politically stable enough to try its former leader.

SADDAM HUSSEIN CAPTURE PHOTO TRIAL

Somewhat predictably, some left-leaning bloggers saw an unfair show trial in the works.

But this bit of non-news - after all, as expected, the trial for his crimes against the village of Dujail was postponed - was immediately seized upon by the blogosphere nevertheless. Despite the dramatic setting, nothing really happened aside from the former Iraqi dictator’s plea of “not guilty” and a brief scuffle with his guards. All eyes today were on a courtroom in Baghdad where behind a barrier of white metal bars sat Saddam Hussein, in what he called “his best clothes,” his hair as jet black as always (are they still letting him dye it?).

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