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Whatever the legalities, unless the Baghdad regime is overthrown, it is unlikely that Saddam and his top henchmen will be placed in the dock. Some jurists suggest they should be tried anyway, in absentia. But even without that dramatic event, the meticulous documenting of atrocities and the punishment of Iraqis who carried out their superiors' most unconscionable orders would serve a deterrent purpose and underscore the justice of the allied cause. "The idea of a trial would be to show the Arabs that Saddam Hussein is not the great savior," says Howard Levie, professor emeritus of law at St. Louis...
Much as they want to see Saddam killed, overthrown or tried for war crimes, several top Bush Administration advisers and Arab leaders are quietly pulling for some of Saddam's nastiest henchmen to survive in power. If Iraq's Sunni Muslim ruling elite were to be ousted wholesale, no alternative government could easily take charge of the country's highly politicized military and secret police. Fear of these institutions is the strongest glue binding Iraq's fractious populace, including its long-oppressed Shi'ite Muslim majority and its rebellious northern Kurds. "When the Iraqis stop fighting us," says a senior...
...unprecedented gesture of support for democracy, the Haitian military, led by army Chief of Staff General Herard Abraham, declared its allegiance to the government. Less than 12 hours after the coup began, soldiers stormed the palace, freed Pascal-Trouillot and dragged off Lafontant and 15 of his henchmen in handcuffs...
Among those who monitor atrocities for a living, a dispute is simmering. How many Kuwaitis have been summarily executed since Iraq's invasion on Aug. 2? How many have been tortured, how many arrested, how many raped? No one knows for sure, and few but Saddam's henchmen may ever know...
Prince's crony Morris Day appears, quite amusingly, as the headman of the vandals, and the producers Jimmy (Jam) Harris and Terry Lewis show up as a couple of his henchmen. Harris and Lewis were pals and musical rivals of Prince's back in junior high school, and have gone on to some substantial success of their own by producing the last two top-selling Janet Jackson albums. But in Graffiti Bridge they are called on to re-enact the old adolescent competition. Prince bests them, natch. As a colleague explains, "Prince wrote the script, pulled in the money, directed...