As for Saddam Hussein, We really dont know where he is. As last heard, he is being kept in a secret secured prison in the US and is well taken care-of. Taken care in such a manner that he doesnt have any contacts with the outside world, especially he is stripped of any media. He cant read any newspaper, or watch Television or hear Radio.
But Recently, saddam has got into one of John Grisham's novels.. "The Tyrant".
The Tyrant
These are brief reviews of the book. (As seen on brokenewz.com)
"Mesmerizing... with an authority and originality... and with a grasp of literary complexity that makes Gulf War I by comparison -- Grisham returns." -- San Francisco Chronicle.
"Compelling... Powerful... The Tyrant will make readers think long and hard about invading other countries who we think are bad, and probably are, but not really sure, so we go and find out they are sorta bad, so it really probably was the right thing……right?" -- USA Today.
"His best yet." -- The Houston Post.
Saddam's men to be tried next month
News is that sometime around next month five of Saddam's loyal men are going to be tried on a case of mass execution. While it has not been pointed out that saddam will be questioned on this case, there is a chance that he gets out there in the courtroom and the media might get a snap of him...because this case indirectly links him. Not just because the men being tried are his loyals, but the killings happened when an assasination attempt on saddam was made.
An U.S. Embassy official in Baghdad described the course of events that led to the mass executions more than two decades ago. On July 8, 1982, Saddam was passing through the agricultural town of Dajil, Iraq, near Balad, when an unsuccessful assassination attempt was launched against him.
Although the evidence demonstrates that the attempt was "a crime of opportunity where a few people attempted to fire at Saddam Hussein," the official said the backlash was "devastating" and targeted the entire village. Saddam's men executed some 143 men on charges of being members of the outlawed Dawa party. In addition, they incarcerated an estimated 1,500 residents for up to four years without charges, destroyed many of their homes, and stripped the surrounding land so it could no longer be used for farming.
The irony is here : (Throughout the trial,) "innocence is presumed," the official said.
Iraqi Judge on Saddam Hussein Case, and his Lawyer brother Assassinated - March 1, 05
( as read on: periodico26.cu)
Baghdad, March 2 (RHC)-- An Iraqi judge on the special tribunal that will put former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and several of his associates on trial was assassinated Tuesday night in Baghdad. According to media reports on Wednesday, unidentified gunmen shot Barawiz Mahmoud in front of his house in northern Baghdad's Azamyiah district on Tuesday. His brother Aryan, a lawyer with the tribunal, was also killed.
Judges on the special tribunal were never identified in public for security concerns, and Mahmoud's role on the tribunal was never made clear, but the law establishing it called for up to 20 investigative judges and up to 20 prosecutors.
The judge's assassination came as hundreds of Iraqis rallied in the town of Hilla on Tuesday, demanding better security measures and accusing local police of failing to prevent a massive car-bomb explosion that killed 115 people on Monday.
As for Iraq, the country is going through a very difficult time of installing democracy. They had the elections where traditional shia muslims got a clear majority to form the government. The victory of Shia's isn't giving the right signs to the Rest-of-the-World who are expecting Iraq grow into a responsible democratic nation.
But this may be the only thing close to an acceptable government formation because Iraqis will not accept governance by anybody other than the shia's. They can trust only the shia's because most of the Iraqis haven't understood the rest of the world for the way saddam ruled the country, and so wont trust anyone other than men from their own community.
And the security condition in the country is getting such worser that, everyday Iraqi people are being killed, torn to pieces, bursted like crackers on the streets of iraq through car bombs, and other explosions. The explosions are in a way protests made by people who can't understand democracy and who are probably "misled and misused" by arrogant, power-hungry terrorist bosses and honchos in Iraq.
And when will this killings stop?
...Only when these guys use up all their ammunition and weapons stocks which they accumulated over the years of saddam's rule.
As for my opinion,
Democracy is a process and trying to install it at a shot has its consequences like we have seen so far in Iraq.
A little slower means of silencing the guns and bringing down saddam could have been implemented, with the people power and the military power of the United Nations.
Other than being serious about the support of the US and UK leaders, The United Nations should have been more serious about the fact that if a war happens it will kill more innocent people(for they don't hide or watch out well) than the targets. Killing of the innocents have brought up new forces of protest to the system.
