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...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...
...Both men had spent two hours talking to TIME on Monday, explaining their reasons for joining the team of lawyers representing eight members of the former regime in the trial over the 1982 Dujail executions. (The two were representing Saddam's brother, Barzan al Tikriti, and the former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan.) The shooting comes just over two weeks after a fellow defense attorney, Sadoon al Janabi, was kidnapped and assassinated following the first televised broadcast of Saddam's trial...
...spotter. Sergeant Siek (Jamie Foxx) leads Swofford’s unit, and it’s not that he’s a bad guy—he just enjoys torturing his trainees. Siek’s tough love continues when the marines ship out to fight Saddam. The desert heat gradually drives the soldiers stir-crazy. Socialized to kill, they become frustrated by the lack of combat and take out their aggression on each other and themselves. This volatile situation is only exacerbated by the appearance of actual Iraqis, who show up late in the movie...
...Their 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...