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  • IRAQ JUSTICE: Torture victims wait to denounce Saddam

    12/31/2003 2:35:35 AM PST · by kattracks · 12 replies · 226+ views
    Union Leader ^ | 12/31/03 | NIKO PRICE, AP
    BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A ship's captain dipped into nitric acid wants to offer his wrecked body as evidence of Saddam Hussein's crimes. A janitor wants to tell the world how the dictator ordered her husband killed and her son tortured. A new tribunal created to try top former Iraqi officials doesn't have custody of Saddam. It doesn't have courtrooms, judges or prosecutors either. Things like charges and witness lists remain months away. But already, thousands of Iraqis who suffered under Saddam's bloody rule are lining up for a chance to testify against the man who to them personifies...