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Almost four months since it opened, the trial of Saddam Hussein has been plagued by violence and the courtroom antics of Saddam and his seven co-defendants. Saddam's boycott of the court last week forced its chief judge to adjourn hearings until next week. So is a credible trial still possible? A look inside the world's most contentious courtroom. 1 - IN THE DOCK...
...project ought to be abandoned. It was a creature of the United States in the first place." RAMSEY CLARK, former U.S. Attorney General and member of Saddam Hussein's defense team, claiming that political pressures on the court make it difficult to hold a fair trial...
...when Bush talks about Palestinians he sounds like Ted Kennedy talking about Americans? It came about the old-fashioned way, through utter policy failure. Bush's flashy love affair with democracy is a fallback position: it ascended when the original rationale for the war in Iraq-the threat of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction-receded. Bush was dismissive of "nation building" in his 2000 presidential campaign. By the 2004 race, however, a staple of his stump speech was, "Freedom isn't America's gift to the world...
...freedom of speech. But a more elusive human quality is necessary as well: a drastic change of public sensibility from passivity toward active engagement. In a place like Iraq-or the former Soviet Union-passivity was a survival mechanism. The best way to live with a tyrant like Saddam was to draw as little notice to yourself as possible. A Russian friend once told me that he was taught as a child never to smile in public. You never knew when a smile might be interpreted the wrong...
RESIGNED. RIZKAR MOHAMMED AMIN, as chief judge of the tribunal overseeing the trial of Saddam Hussein; "for personal reasons," he said in a statement; in Baghdad. The Iraqi government did not immediately accept the resignation of Amin, who has been criticized for allowing Saddam's frequent outbursts. The trial is set to resume this week after a month's recess...