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Mon 1 Jan -

Saddam: SWIFTLY
TO THE GALLOWS -

Why did it seem like the Iraqi Govmt was rushing Saddam Hussein to the gallows?

*In December 2005 a much more convincing Dutch court formally ruled that Hussein's regime was guilty of genocide against the Kurds, when it sentenced Frans van Anraat to 15 years in prison for knowingly selling chemicals for nerve gas to Iraq...

On April 28, 2007 Saddam Hussein would have reached his 70th birthday, becoming immune from execution under Iraqi law.*

:: This article ::
by Edward Luttwak at First Post
is recommended reading.

It is accompanied by:
:: Saddam era: the death toll ::

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