 Only two of the five original judges remain in post. Two defence lawyers have been killed and one has fled the country. The defence team has walked out. A senior defendant was dragged out by guards, hurling insults - and the man the world is watching walked out after a screaming match with the judge. Much of the world - or at least, much of the world's media - appears to have decided that the trial of Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants is something between a travesty and a farce. But though the world may be watching the spectacle slack-jawed with astonishment, this trial is not really for them. It is for the people of Iraq, who were ruled for so long by Saddam Hussein. So what do they think? ...
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