Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Saddam: "Where is the crime?"

BAGHDAD, Iraq — A defiant Saddam Hussein admitted in court Wednesday that he ordered the trial of 148 Shiites eventually executed in the 1980s, but he insisted that doing so was legal because they were suspected in an assassination attempt against him.
"Where is the crime? Where is the crime?" Saddam asked, standing before the panel of five judges...

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Hey Saddam: maybe you need a refresher.