Butcher of Baghdad Goes on Trial

Saddam Hussein goes on trial tomorrow for the 1982 murder execution of nearly 150, mainly Shiite, Iraqis following a failed assassination attempt on his life.

This trial is being held first because it was the easiest and quickest case to put together.

An Iraqi tribunal will conduct the trial.

Critics argue that the proper forum should have been similar to the international tribunal in the Hague conducting the never-ending trial of former Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic.

Enter the human rights groups with their concerns about the possibility, or rather to them, the impossibility of a fair trial in Iraq.

I'm confident the Iraqis will deal fairly with Saddam. He will get a fair trial, unlike those who were massacred.
--LynZee