High crimes

Iraq | An Iraqi-led tribunal commences—then delays—the historic war crimes trial of Saddam Hussein | Mindy Belz

If past is prologue then Iraqis are having none of it. Three years to the day after a compulsory vote gave Saddam Hussein a 100 percent mandate to rule the country for seven more years, Iraqis voted to approve a new constitution as a forerunner to electing a new government. Four days later they put the former dictator on trial.

Baghdad streets emptied Oct. 19 as most Iraqis headed home or to the houses of friends to watch the televised proceedings against Saddam—determined, according to popular blogger Omar Fadhil, to "watch the trial together just like we lived what led to this day together." Some residents said they stored extra fuel for their generators, just in case the trial outlasted Baghdad's sporadic electricity.

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