Saddam Hussein being led in shackles from an Iraqi courtroom on Thursday, after hearing a list of preliminary charges against him and 11 other former Iraqi leaders. Shrunk to Size, Hussein Faces His Reckoning By JOHN F. BURNS Published: July 4, 2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq — It was only in the courtroom, at the American military base, that their physical insignificance, their sheer unremitting ordinariness, became so plain. On television last Thursday, the images of the 12 former Iraqi leaders conveyed an altogether bigger impression, perhaps because the lens tightened until their faces filled the screen. But to a reporter sitting...
