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[mrph]

Human Rights Watch - Saddam trial 'flawed and unsound'

Important documents were not given to defence lawyers in advance, no written transcript was kept and paperwork was lost

Not good. I'm not going to suggest that he's actually innocent, or that he should be released - but it still needed to be a fair trial.

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[mrph.livejournal.com]

it was probably the fairest and most thoroughly vetted trial in Iraq in the past 25 years

Yes, it probably was. But still... no transcript? That's pretty basic, surely?