"The trial of the century has been delayed by acts of violence by insurgents, including former supporters of the Saddam regime.
Proof of his atrocities is abundant. Documentary evidence, scrupulously hoarded by Iraqi officials show the scale of his corruption and villainy.
But witnesses who can give detailed testimony on his slaughter have been threatened with death.
Everyone connected with his looming trial is at risk. A senior judge and a lawyer have already been assassinated.
The location of Saddam’s jail is top secret, with American forces determined to thwart “loyalist” attempts to free him. Few have deserved the scaffold more than the Butcher of Baghdad.
Thousands would have prayed for a quick death instead of the unspeakable torture meted out in his bleak jails.
Some were electrocuted, whipped with barbed wire and garotted. Others were condemned to roast alive in steel coffins left in the Iraqi desert sun.
Saddam encouraged his evil sons, Uday and Qusay to use human beings as toys.
Even opponents of the death penalty or the anti-war brigade would find it difficult to raise support for sparing Saddam's life.
Almost everyone will remember how the deposed dictator ruthlessly murdered his closest allies and family members during his bloody reign.
But it will be his fiercest opponents during those dark days who will show astonishing humility by refusing to stoop to his own barbaric level."
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005230300,00.html
Proof of his atrocities is abundant. Documentary evidence, scrupulously hoarded by Iraqi officials show the scale of his corruption and villainy.
But witnesses who can give detailed testimony on his slaughter have been threatened with death.
Everyone connected with his looming trial is at risk. A senior judge and a lawyer have already been assassinated.
The location of Saddam’s jail is top secret, with American forces determined to thwart “loyalist” attempts to free him. Few have deserved the scaffold more than the Butcher of Baghdad.
Thousands would have prayed for a quick death instead of the unspeakable torture meted out in his bleak jails.
Some were electrocuted, whipped with barbed wire and garotted. Others were condemned to roast alive in steel coffins left in the Iraqi desert sun.
Saddam encouraged his evil sons, Uday and Qusay to use human beings as toys.
Even opponents of the death penalty or the anti-war brigade would find it difficult to raise support for sparing Saddam's life.
Almost everyone will remember how the deposed dictator ruthlessly murdered his closest allies and family members during his bloody reign.
But it will be his fiercest opponents during those dark days who will show astonishing humility by refusing to stoop to his own barbaric level."
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005230300,00.html
