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...William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant defense secretary for health affairs, has said the Pentagon has taken steps to prevent a recurrence of Gulf War Syndrome. Many experts believes its myriad of symptoms- pain, fatigue, diarrhea and cognitive impairment, among others-is linked to the toxic chemical soup, including Saddam Hussein's stockpiles of nerve agents destroyed by U.S. forces, that contaminated the battlefield in the 1990-91 conflict. "We've done quite a lot more to set up preventive health systems-monitoring of soil, water, air and just ongoing monitoring of the environment to ensure as best we can that people...
...Saddam Hussein lived up to the meaning of his first name ("one who confronts") on the first day of his trial by an Iraqi Special Tribunal, Wednesday: He denied the court's legitimacy, and challenged the presiding judge any time it was suggested that Saddam was no longer head of state in Iraq. Time and again, he got in the face of chief Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amein, a Kurd, over how he should be addressed, never hiding his contempt for the proceedings: "This court is false and whatever is built on a false basis is false," he said once, after...
...Saddam has been indicted for the 1982 murder of 143 men from the small village of Dujail, following an assassination attempt on the dictator. Hundreds more were imprisoned and tortured. Saddam's defense, however, seems to rest on the fact that he was grabbed "like that," by U.S. soldiers back in December 2003, and was now before a court set up to carry out victor's justice...
...That theme was echoed by Saddam's lead defense attorney, Khalil Dulaimi. "This court is illegitimate and unconstitutional," said Dulaimi. "It is created on false foundations, and while those who are in charge of it are trying to improve its image, we still contest the legitimacy of this court...
...Iraqis who'd seen Saddam Hussein, "re-elected" on Oct. 15, 2002 with 100 percent of the vote, there may have been something oddly familiar in the news from the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, shortly after the polls closed on Saturday, that 99 percent of voters in some provinces in the Shi'ite south had approved the charter...