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"The accusations against me are unscrupulous lies and also a treacherous distortion of history." SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, former Yugoslav President, in his opening address before the war crimes tribunal in The Hague
Let Saddam Live Re your notebook item "Saddam's Latest Foes" [July 12], on the former dictator's first appearance before the Iraqi tribunal: Why can't we punish Saddam Hussein and let him live, provided he agrees to cooperate with the new Iraqi government? He is responsible for the...
The rasping drone was familiar, as was his surreal declaration: "I am Saddam Hussein, President of the Republic of Iraq." At his first court appearance in Baghdad last week, the former dictator sparred with the judge, defended his invasion of Kuwait and even floated a defense strategy, claiming the U.S...
Still, the Iraqi tribunal trying Saddam faces many hurdles. Fourteen months after the war, about 50 tons of potentially damning documents--salvaged from government offices as looters rampaged through the capital--remain untouched in basements and storerooms, mostly in Baghdad. Other key evidence may have "gone up in smoke," says...
DIED. SIR RICHARD MAY, 65, British judge who adeptly steered the proceedings in former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes tribunal; of a brain tumor; in Oxford, England. The low-key but occasionally prickly barrister resigned in February owing to grave health, after two years of regular courtroom wrangling...