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With no daytime curfew in effect, shoppers milled around stores in Karadah, a neighborhood in central Baghdad where the streets were mostly quiet.? But other parts of the city sounded with the unrelenting rhythm of Iraq's daily violence, which carried on as usual.? Two parked cars exploded in a...
"With this huge amount of daily killing in Iraq, executing Saddam will not bring sadness or happiness to any honest Iraqi," said Abu Ammar al-Aljaberi, a lawyer in Baghdad.? "We live in another kind of dictatorship now, one run by other killers."
It's not that I believe Saddam got a raw deal. Some opponents of his execution say the trial's flaws - compounded by the climate of intimidation surrounding it, during which two defense lawyers and a judge were assassinated - are sufficient to justify sparing his life. (Human Rights Watch outlines...
The pace of events in Ghazaliya and other violent neighborhoods in Baghdad these days makes the policy debate on Iraq in Washington seem like a glacial process doomed to produce a strategy immediately rendered outdated. Even now, much of Washington appears to be clinging to the belief that the killing...
With that background, the world - and the U.S. in particular - was never going to forget Somalia easily. As the only officially Christian country in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia has long been wary of Somalia's Islamic militias, which it describes as a "regional menace." (While it is officially Christian...