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Thursday, October 13, 2005 More Than Hussein on Trial By Richard Boudreaux and Borzou Daragahi Times Staff Writer
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Los Angeles Times:
More Than Hussein on Trial By Richard Boudreaux and Borzou Daragahi Times Staff Writer
Times staff writer Zainab Hussein in Baghdad contributed to this report.
7:16 PM PDT, October 13, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- In a country more bloodied now than at the time of his capture, Saddam Hussein is set to appear in court next week for a trial that could become either a milestone in a democratic transformation or a new source of crippling strife.
The five trial judges sit on a special Iraqi court organized and financed by the Bush administration to bring the deposed president and his closest collaborators to justice. But this is not the case Washington wanted to start with.
U.S. officials had advised the judges on the fledgling court to try a "test case" against underlings before putting Saddam on the stand. Urged by Iraqi leaders to move more swiftly, investigative judges chose instead to include Saddam along with seven aides in the court's first trial.
The conflicting pressures on the Iraqi Special Tribunal reflect deep uncertainties about how to proceed with the notorious prisoner 22 months after his capture. With the country torn since his ouster by an insurgency targeting Iraq's elected leaders and the 140,000 U.S. troops stationed there, much more is at stake than the fate of one man. <...>
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