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Enemy of the state : the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein / Michael A. Newton and Michael P. Scharf.

by Newton, Michael A.

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New York : St. Martin's Press, 2008.

Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006 -- Trials, litigation, etc.

Trials (Crimes against humanity) -- Iraq -- Baghdad.

Trials (Murder) -- Iraq -- Baghdad.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0835/2008021087-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0835/2008021087-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0901/2008021087-s.html

9780312385569 :

x, 305 p., [8] p. plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Liberation -- The genesis of justice -- Hammurabi was an Iraqi : the creation of the Iraqi tribunal -- Proving incredible events -- Trial and error -- Disorder in the courtroom -- Judgment day -- Appeal and execution -- Echoes of Nuremberg : the Dujail trial in historic perspective.

A behind-the-scenes account documents the events surrounding the executed Iraqi dictator's capture and the assemblage of the High Tribunal, describing how its team of judges and prosecutors was prepared to run a fair trial in the face of such obstacles as international upheavals and the disapprovals of the U.K. and the U.N.

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