[jveritas]

Hearings? This is a verdict sentence. Unless in the UK the reading of the verdict is called a hearing.

[conservative in nyc]

Fox News reported earlier that everything you see on TV is on a 30-minute delay, that the defendants will each be able to make a speech first, followed by a recess, and then the verdicts - with Saddam facing justice last.

It should be a while.

[Allegra]

Unless in the UK the reading of the verdict is called a hearing.

I think it is. It's a Parliamentary government, so that would make sense.

They wouldn't lock Baghdad down like this for just a hearing. They usually just close off the area around the courthouse on trial days. The whole city is shut down today. Until further notice.

Helicopters circling the Green Zone again.