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Monday, December 15, 2003
"... for some reason you
expected him to bite that soldier's finger a la Hanibal
Lecter." The celebrated Baghdad blogger Salam
Pax on the arrest and
upcoming trial of Saddam Hussein:
Why do all the interesting
things happen when I am not in baghdad?
at first I couldn't believe it
when I heard it, I got too excited when they reported that the
vice president Izat Ibrahim was arrested and then it turned out to
be nothing, so my reaction was "yeah right". but the images on TV
left no chance to doubt. He looked like a tramp getting a physical
and for some reason you expected him to bite that soldier's finger
a la Hanibal Lecter. But he just sat there. There was another
moment when the GC members were describing their meeting with
Saddam and told the journalists about the deriding remarks he made
when they asked him about the Sadir's assasination and the mass
graves, he sounded like he has totally lost it.
I want a fully functioning
Saddam who will sit on a chair in front of a TV camera for 10
hours everyday and tells us what exactly happened the last 30
years. I do not care about the fair trial thing Amnesty Int. is
worried about and I don'r really care much about the fact that the
Iraqi judges might not be fullt qualified, we all know he should
rot in hell. but what I do care about is that he gets a public
trial because I want to hear all the untold stories.
UPDATE: MediaChannel.org's
Danny
Schechter points to this
commentary
by Salam Pax in the Guardian.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
