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Saddam in the dock? (Insider Report).

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"The Bush administration is building cases against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and more than a dozen members of his inner circle," reported the October 30th Washington Post. "The venue for prosecution has not been determined, but U.S. officials say a consensus is forming around establishing courts in a post-Hussein Iraq that would be staffed in part by international jurists." This would be in keeping with the UN-approved concept of "complementarity," under which national courts would apply standards of "international law" as defined by the world body.

Prospective prosecutions would focus on Saddam, his thuggish sons Uday and Ousay, Ali Hassan Majeed (aka "Chemical Ali" for his use of chemical weapons against Kurds), and other members of Saddam's ruling clique. The potential charges against Saddam and his henchmen would include "the 1990-91 destruction of Kuwait, the draining of the marshes in southern Iraq ...

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