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Markets are hard to beat and even harder to manipulate. On Dec. 11, 2003, InTrade's contract on Saddam Hussein's capture suddenly began to move. "We noticed that that contract started trading from 9 to 30 for no reason," says Mike Knesevitch, communications director. "Something was happening." In fact, someone may well have been trading on inside information. Two days later, Saddam was in custody...
...before he was gunned down just blocks from his home in Baghdad, Adil al-Zubeidi, a member of Saddam Hussein's legal defense team, had sat calmly sipping a Seven-Up and explaining why he wasn't afraid of death. It was his faith, he said, that made it possible for him to risk his life to do his job: ensuring that even members of Saddam's brutal regime got a fair trial. Despite the danger of assassination-a second member of the defense team was killed last month-he put his fate in the hands of God. "I believe...
...have been Baathists trying to derail the trial and putting pressure on the government to move it out of the country. But the speculation among the lawyers, since the Janabi killing and also today, has been that the killers were Shiite militias enacting revenge on those defending Saddam Hussein...
...unfortunate victims have left behind spouses, children and friends, and those survivors are the people with whom the insurgents will ultimately have to share a country. I doubt that the Shi'ites will ever associate with the Sunni killers as fellow citizens or do business with them. Under Saddam Hussein, the Sunnis were for many years a privileged minority. Without Saddam, they are no longer protected. Now, with the legacy of hatred they have engendered, their future is bound to be bleak. Martin H. Gingold Warminster, Pennsylvania...
...Vulcan,* one of the Bush team hard-liners, along with former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who helped the President cram for foreign policy debates during the 2000 campaign and who had argued for years that the U.S. should depose Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and bring democracy and stability to the Middle East...