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Saddam will sit behind bulletproof glass, before a three-judge tribunal. There will be no jury. Instead of the adversarial model of British and U.S. courts, expect to see the inquisitorial system of France and Egypt. A team of investigative judges gathers facts, levies charges and refers them to the three-judge tribunal, which calls and quizzes witnesses. Saddam's lawyers can suggest names, but they can't call their own witnesses...
...years developing better feed for fish farming. So he enlisted with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which sent him for a two-year stint to teach fish farming in the mountains of Honduras. When that was finished, he re-upped for a tour in Malaysia and then Egypt. "I thought it would be good if I could use my experience and work for someone else," says the dapper 67-year-old. "It's a different culture, with different stakes. I felt a kind of enjoyment I couldn't get from regular work." There are thousands of other Japanese like...
Although rarely seen in public, Abu Samhadana is emerging as the most powerful figure in this flash-point town on the border between Gaza and Egypt, where the intifadeh was at its most murderous. As the founder of an armed militia called the Salah ed-Din Brigades, he commands 2,000 gunmen who since 2001 have fought deadly battles with Israeli forces patrolling the border. But now that Israel has pulled its troops and civilians out of Gaza and turned over responsibility for the area to the Palestinian Authority, Abu Samhadana and his troops have a new target: Palestinian President...
...ruling National Democratic Party, as well as the weakness of smaller opposition parties, which learned only in February that he was allowing a contest. But voter apathy as well as cries of foul play undercut Mubarak's effort to portray the election as a showcase for democratic change. Egypt's Independent Committee for Election Monitoring (icem) issued a critical report citing violations from ballot stuffing to vote buying to voter intimidation. The committee slammed election officials for banning most of its 2,200 observers from the polls, declaring "No election can be called free, fair and transparent if voters have...
...Still, the irregularities steadily reported throughout the day - from ballot stuffing to vote buying to intimidation inside polling stations - cast a pall over Mubarak?s majority. Repeated cries of foul play raised questions about whether the crucial elections for Egypt?s 454-seat parliament, due to be held in the next two months, would be an honest contest. After most of its monitors were barred from observing Wednesday?s post-election vote count, Egypt?s Independent Committee for Election Monitoring (ICEM) declared: ?No election can be called free, fair and transparent if voters have been denied the right to monitor...